What Do You Use To Back Colorflow To Keep It From Bleeding?
Decorating By rhesp1212 Updated 9 Jun 2007 , 4:08am by tcturtleshell
Hello everyone!
I am making a fairly large Navy emblem and I figure the easiest way to get all the colors is to use color flow. However, I need this to lay flat on a buttercream iced cake. I know the grease from the buttercream will make it turn to mush. Can I cover the back in chocolate?? Royal icing?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Valerie
I'm sorry I don't have an answer about the colorflow, but have you considered doing the emblem as a frozen buttercream transfer?
You can add another layer of colorflow or some royal icing to the back of it so that the colored areas aren't sitting directly on the cake. If it's thicker, it will take longer to break down.
Honestly, I really wouldn't worry about it. I would just put the emblem on at the last minute and it should be fine. It takes a long time for the colorflow to break down.
I have never had a colorflow piece turnm to mush or bleed on a bc cake. I just use a few dabs of choc on the back and lay it on. yes, you can paint it with choc to give it a little height and keep it off the icing if you like. 
Well, the emblem is going to sit on the cake for atleast 3 hours...the customer is coming to pick it up around 5pm tomorrow and the party isn't until 8pm, so unfortunately putting it on at the last minutes isn't an option.
good to know about the chocolate....that will be the easiest way I think....just melt some choc., put on a plate and just dip the emblem into it to coat the back. YEAH!!! Thanks for the tips!!
Valerie
just a tiny tip... i woud not dip it; too much chance to break it and make a mess. use a paintbrush to dab some on the back, and make it pile a little high to keep it off the BC a tad.
i have let them sit on bc for a full day with no problems. good luck!
I coated the back of a black piece with some piping gel. It did a great job--no break down or bleeding at all.
Rae
I use waffer paper underneath all my color flow pieces. I draw or trace the design right onto the waffer paper using editable markers. Then I tape the waffer paper to wax paper or parchment paper. Then I color flow. I make the waffer paper a little larger then what the color flow piece is & after it's dry I use an exacto knife to cut around the piece. It's so much easier then trying to lift the color flow piece off of the wax paper. Sometimes when you lift the piece off of the wax paper it breaks 
that's why I started doing it this way. So far it's worked perfectly for me. The pieces have never bled. I have several in my photo's if you'd like to see~ Good Luck!
I forgot.. to give the color flow piece I shine I brush on piping gel. It doesn't break down the color flow & it has a great shine
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