Beautiful Lettering...

Decorating By terri-jo Updated 22 May 2007 , 7:05pm by dabear

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terri-jo Posted 8 May 2007 , 1:16am
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A while back (well, not that far) I saw a cake on the "all-time-favourites" page. It was a brown bible with the most beautiful gold lettering. I've searched for it, and can't fine it, and sadly, I don't know who made it. I have an order for an ordination cake this weekend, and I'm dying to do the lettering just like that. Does anyone remember who made it, or maybe how to do that lettering? Or. do you have any tricks for really beautiful gold print? Any help is appreciated.

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bobwonderbuns Posted 8 May 2007 , 1:21am
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If you look at my pix, I did a golden monogrammed cake. The monogram was simply colorflowed over a font I liked, dried then gilded with confectioners glaze and gold lustre dust. Hopefully that will give you a starting point anyway. Good luck!! icon_biggrin.gif

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terri-jo Posted 8 May 2007 , 1:26am
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Thanks, bobwonderbuns! Your cake is beautiful. Will that work, do you think with much smaller lettering? I'm wondering if the cake I'm thinking of was stenciled. Anyone have experience stenciling on fondant?

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bobwonderbuns Posted 8 May 2007 , 1:31am
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Flowing smaller lettering does work, it's just a royal pain in the ...(pick a bodypart...)!! And for the monogram I made 4 times as many letters as I needed -- good thing too - the ones on the cake are the only ones that survived! icon_confused.gif I wish I could help you with the other cake though, but I'm not familiar with it.

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Biya Posted 8 May 2007 , 1:32am
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You can print a sheet in any font and any size on your computer, put a piece of wax paper on top of it and copy using royal icing. If you let it dry, I usually do atleast overnight, you can paint in gold luster dust and then just put the letters on your cake.

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bobwonderbuns Posted 21 May 2007 , 9:34pm
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I just uploaded a closeup of the monogram for you to see better. http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=547723

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projectqueen Posted 22 May 2007 , 2:36am
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Is this it?

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1015.html

If so, it was uploaded by Godiva.

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mixinvixen Posted 22 May 2007 , 2:56am
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there is a book that pretty much took my breath away when i saw it, but it was on the wilton site; not sure if it's on here too though. here's the link

http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=4&threadid=92492&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

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bobwonderbuns Posted 22 May 2007 , 3:04am
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Wow!! That's some book cake!! They both are!!! So how do you do the pages? That's the part I always have trouble with. icon_confused.gif

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miriel Posted 22 May 2007 , 3:23am
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For pages, you can roll fondant the size of the thickness of the book and score the pages by drawing straight lines, then attach this to the cake.

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BarbaraK Posted 22 May 2007 , 11:47am
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Here's the link to the cake

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_42899.html

It looks like the letters were cut out using the 'tappits' and then painted with gold. Maybe you could PM her and ask how she did it.

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BarbaraK Posted 22 May 2007 , 12:11pm
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On the Wilton website, she says that she printed out the words then covered with paper with wax paper and piped with royal icing. Then she painted it gold and stuck it on the book with dots of royal icing.

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ombaker Posted 22 May 2007 , 3:23pm
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Wow such beautiful work

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dabear Posted 22 May 2007 , 7:05pm
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