Are There Any Tricks To Doing Evenly Spaced Dots?
Decorating By treys_girl04 Updated 6 May 2006 , 1:35pm by sue_dye
Im doing my first wedding cake with dots next week, and the pic the bride gave has nice uniformed spaced dots and im nervous! any advice welcome
If you can't eyeball it, you can buy impression mats with evenly spaced dots from sugarcraft.com.
If you can't eyeball it, you can buy impression mats with evenly spaced dots from sugarcraft.com.
Thanks for the tip! My eyeballs get a little cross-eyed when I try to evenly space dots. I knew there must be another way! 
There are impression mats that are used just for this purpose. Here is one place they can be purchased:
http://www.earlenescakes.com/store/impression_tools.html
I'm a complete novice, but maybe you could get a styrofoam circle about the size of your cake top and a bag of popsicle sticks. Draw a grid on the foam circle spaced however you like. Secure the popsicle sticks into the foam at the desired spacing, using the grid. Then gently lower the sticks onto the top of the cake, just enough to mark where your dots go. This should work for the side as well, you would just have to go around and mark.
One of those would be nice to have!!!! The way I've always done it of course is by eye. And no, they are never "perfect" but fairly uniform. I always try to start my dots in a 5 pattern, like on the 5 dot side of a dice.
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I have NO idea if these dots above this line will stay in a 5 pattern after I submit this but anyway, I start with 5, then I just continue adding usually to the right. If the dots I typed above look like a 5 side dice pattern, then the next dot I would add to the right would be one center dot, then 2 more dots, one above and one below, etc... working around my cake. Then I would start with the next row under that. I work from top to bottom.
I hope this makes sense and if not...then I'm just RAMBLING!!!!!!! LOL
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