Tassel - Fondant, Gumpaste Or 50/50? Help

Decorating By projectqueen Updated 5 Jun 2007 , 10:03pm by torki

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projectqueen Posted 5 Jun 2007 , 6:55pm
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I need to make a tassel for a graduation cap and I was planning to make it from fondant.

Last week I made an iPod cake with a fondant cord for the headset and the fondant cord kept breaking where it was suspended from the cake to the cake board.

Now I'm afraid that the tassel will break as well since it's going to need to suspend from the top of the cap down and over the edge of the cake.

Would gumpaste be stronger or would it be more brittle and apt to break? Should I do a 50/50? Or something else completely?

HELP! I don't want to worry about it breaking off. Thanks.

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fooby Posted 5 Jun 2007 , 7:26pm
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I'm doing a grad cake this weekend as well and I haven't even started on the tassle. Not sure yet how I'm doing this so any help out there would be greatly appreciated. Pleaseeeee!! icon_biggrin.gif

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doitallmom Posted 5 Jun 2007 , 7:41pm
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I used straight fondant for the tassel on my goddaughters cap. I kind of glued in different places so that it had the ilusion of dangling movement, but didn't actually do so. HTH

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torki Posted 5 Jun 2007 , 10:03pm
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I would make it 50/50. You will have longer time to play with it but it will still dry and hold it's shape

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