How Do I Make A Smooth Race Track?

Decorating By puzzlegut Updated 26 Sep 2006 , 9:26pm by Edibleart

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puzzlegut Posted 25 Sep 2006 , 9:41pm
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I want to do a cake that has a race track cake and I was wondering how do I make a smooth race track on top and still ice the rest of the cake. Should I just do the entire top of the cake in black and then cover up the extra space with another frosting (like using the grass tip)? Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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reenie Posted 25 Sep 2006 , 10:57pm
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Sounds failry good except the chance of the icing tasting funky cause of all the color. Maybe you could do the track in gum paste, let it dry completely and then place it on top of the cake.

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frog80 Posted 25 Sep 2006 , 11:01pm
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I did one for my FIL with a friend of mine a few months ago. What we did was used the star tip to make a checkered cake and we put a "track" on top of it with fondant and made some fondant race cars to put on the track. Here is a pic. HTH. By the way, my FIL's nickname is "Sweetroll" hence the "Sweetroll 500".
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puzzlegut Posted 26 Sep 2006 , 9:20pm
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Thanks for the suggestions. Do you think just regular chocolate fondant would work, or should I color the fondant black?

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jenncowin Posted 26 Sep 2006 , 9:23pm
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Or if you don't want to use fondant, you could use black icing (choc. icing tinted black) draw it on the cake and use a hot offset spatula to smooth it out. Just another idea.

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KHalstead Posted 26 Sep 2006 , 9:25pm
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I just piped black icing with the big tip that's made to ice a cake......I just turned it over so the grooved side was down and the smooth side was up and squeezed the black icing out.

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Edibleart Posted 26 Sep 2006 , 9:26pm
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If you use a crusting bc you could ice the cake and mask off the outside and inside of the track with wax paper cut in "stencil" of race track so you could frost the track. Hope that makes sense!

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