How Do I Make This Stronger?
Decorating By chrissysconfections Updated 10 Jul 2007 , 1:33pm by chrissysconfections
I need to make this for a cake topper for a fortieth anniversary next saturday but I'm concerned it won't be sturdy enough. Is it possible to make this stronger? I know I saw somewhere where someone had put some kind of clear paint coating on fondant figurines so that they would last....could I do that? Is there a better way to make it that is cheap and somewhat easy? The client doesn't want the pearls in her's but red rhinestones against the white background as the whole cake will be iced white with red scrollwork and ribbon.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! 
I would use Royal Icing. Let it dry well, and then turn them over and ice again on the back, add a sharpened short wood dowel rod while it is wet and let dry, then turn over when dry and add your rhinestones on with a little royal icing, let dry. You could also find some wooden numbers at the hobby store and paint them and glue a stick to the back. Good Luck.
Thank you!
I did end up finding wooden numbers the size I needed which I didn't think possible at the time of this post. The client saw the pic in the new 2008 yearbook with the 40th anniversary cake and fell in love with that topper now instead (just a simple red 40). I bought the wooden numbers and spray painted them red and glued dowels to them. Figured that would be much better then the color flow they used in the book.
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