New To This Site, Few Questions...
Decorating By cakaddict Updated 23 Apr 2007 , 4:38am by itsasweetthing
Hi everyone!
First, please note i'm french so my english may be hard to understand lol!
I would like to know:
-how can i "stick" fondant to fondant? (ex: strips, circles etc... on a cake that is already covered with fondant. And what about heavier pieces?)
-can i find a link here fore whimsical cake method?
Thank you very much for your help,
Cakaddict 
Hi and welcome. here are the ansers to your questions.
1. People use a bunch of things to act as aglue. The easiest is to just use water and apply with a paintbrush.
2. In the article section there is an article on making whimsical cake. Here is the link.
http://www.cakecentral.com/article1-Instructions-For-Building-A-Whimsical-Tilted-Cake.html
Good luck and happy cake decorating!
Glad to welcome you to cake central.
Don;t worry about your english. There are people who are american & english is their first language & their grammer is bad.
As far as sticking fondant to fondant. I use icing as the glue, some on here have stated that they use water. Maybe you could try both. I was thinking you can fin a link or a tutorial under articles. Hope this helps.
Hi and welcome!!
To stick heavy piece of fondant to each other if they are very large, you may need to use either a pice of spaghetti (if you want it to be all edidble) or a wooden cocktail stick. If you do not do this, glue will not be enough to hold it. Push stick or spaghetti down in to bottom pice of fonadant, use a little sugar glue and push second piece down.
Sugar glue can be made from adding either tylose or Gum tragacanth to a small amount of vodka. (thats what we use in New Zealand, the USA members may use something different).
To find whimsical cakes, go to the photo galleries and select the appropriate category. If you see a cake you like - you can PM (personal message) the maker and ask them anything you want to know about it.
Hope this helps.
Hi Cakaddict, and welcome to CC! I think it's a great place to live
I always paint vanilla on my piece to stick fondant to just about anything! It's always worked for me, although be sure to use clear vanilla. you don't want to discolor anything.
Yes, there is an article with pictures on how to make a whimsical cake. I'm going to be trying it next month for my son's teacher. It's teacher appreciation week, and we're giving her Cirque du Soleil tickets, and I thought a whimsical cake would tie in nicely.
Don't forget to post pics of your work!
, you may need to use either a pice of spaghetti (if you want it to be all edidble)
English is my first language and look at the mess I made, that will teach me not to proof read - it should say "a piece of spaghetti (if you want it all to be edible)
Bienvenue, D'ou viens-tu? Ton anglais is fine!
For the links or post, you can look them up either under post or articles. There is a lot of information in both.
For the fondant questions, there are people with lots of experience that should help.
Looks like you have figured out the abbreviations that will help you a lot. If you need a link:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-2926-.html
Bonne Chance.
Née a Montréal, vécu au Québec, Manitoba et depuis 10 ans au Minnesota.
One extra thing I've learned about sticking fondant to fondant is this:
No matter what you use to stick it together with (I just brush with water), it works best when at least one piece is still soft/fresh, as opposed to two hardened pieces.
Two hardened pieces would probably need royal icing or something...haven't tried that, but I had a "bad bow experience" when trying to adhere dried fondant bows to dried fondant ribbon on a cake, then a long drive through road construction. They didn't survive. *shudder*
But fresh soft fondant "glued" to already set fondant, well, it just bonds right on there. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much for all these prompt answers!
I'm glad to see that it's simple to glue fondant to fondant.
For my first fondant cake, i glued my pieces with icing which was not bad, but i think i will try water next time.
Gâteaux: Je viens du Québec! Merci pour le bel accueil, c'est très gentil!
If you don't mind, i have another question i forgot to write
Does the MMF tastes like regular fondant? Is it better? And the texture, is it smoother? I'm wondering about the result, i mean, the look of this fondant.
Thanks!
I've used a 1/4 teaspoon of gumpaste either bought or homemade to one tablespoon of water or clear vanilla.
Welcome and have fun.
Hi,
All of those ideas are good ones. Another one is to use "piping gel". It is quite sticky.
Enjoy the site!
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