Ok, so I have an order for a cake for day after tomorrow. It's to be a lady's hand fan. (the kind where you "flick" it and it opens so there you have a fan) Am I going to need to use fondant to get that effect of the grooves? Also, It needs to have a "sexy" print on it. Sort of lacey. How do I do that? I've never pleated fondant or put any kind of print on it. Any help will be greatly appreciated AND much needed.
Amy
the whole cake will be in the shape of a fan. I'm baking it in 11x15" sheet pan and carving into the basic fan shape.
I made a lingerie cake and I used lace to imprint a pattern on the fondant. Place a piece of lace on your fondant and roll with a rolling pin or place waxed paper over it and press with your hand. I also dusted it with luster dust before I removed the lace to add more effect.
Hope that gives you some ideas....
Do you have any impression mats or impression rollers? Someone said that they actually used a piece of lace that was large and put it on top of fondant, pressed down on it and pulled the lace up and the fondant actually looked like the lace. You can buy a large piece of lace fabric and use that. Can you carve the cake into 'steps' to make it look like a fan? I think carving it is going to be your biggest hurdle.
This sounds complicated!! You really don't have time for your fondant to dry enough that it would stand up. I have 2 suggestions:
1 - use rice paper or something like that, get some lace like others have talked about for imprinting, and use color spray or an airbrush(if you're lucky enough to have one) to spray a pattern onto the rice paper. You can fold the paper into a fan shape and place it on the cake.
OR
2 - use a serrated knife and cut the top of the cake into the pleated shape of the fan. You should exaggerate the shape, because once you ice it, the shape will diminish. Crumb coat in BC, then cover in fondant. You could do the same thing with the lace by spraying it, or you could lay the lace on top of the fondant(cornstarch I think?) and go over it with a rolling pin to imprint the lace.
I didn't know if you were planning on covering the whole cake in fondant or BC. If you're pretty good at smoothing you could definitely attempt this in BC then do the spray thing with the lace. ---HTH!
Here's a pic of a beautiful fan. Looks complicated though but it might give you some ideas
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_568.html
thanks all for the help. That is a gorgeous cake isn't it?
Thanks again,
Amy
Here is a fan cutter made by Tinkertech: http://globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=19847
or by Sunflower Sugar Art: http://globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=19350
I like the one from Sunflower Sugar Art as you don't have to manually do the cut for the ribbon insertion and is slightly bigger than the cutter from Tinkertech.
I would use gumpaste to make these fan pieces.
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