How Do You Do The Beautiful Wedding Cake Boards?

Decorating By mareg Updated 31 Jul 2007 , 10:02pm by weirkd

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mareg Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 3:22pm
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I've got a wedding cake coming up in Sept. and would like some of your ideas to cover the cake board. I've seen many elegant and beautiful ones here on cc. Thanks for your help! thumbs_up.gif

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KoryAK Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 5:00pm
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What is the cake going to look like?

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mareg Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 5:06pm
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It has to feed 150 so I'm thinking of large round cakes with pillars. Possibly bottom 2 stacked. Bride wants deep red fresh roses and a light celery green accent. I think I will do a ribbon of that color on the bottom of the layers.

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jmt1714 Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 5:41pm
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you could cover the board in fondant that color too.

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KoryAK Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 5:53pm
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Yes, cover the board in white or your green fondant with the same ribbon around the border and you can pipe a design onto the top of it similar to whatever you have going on elsewhere in the cake.

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buffim Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 6:03pm
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I tried doing this for a cake the other week and had some serious problems as I got air bubbles in it and couldn't get them out!

The person who taught this to me puts piping gel on the board so that the fondant would stick so I wasn't able to pick it up and place again... Do the rest of you use piping gel to make it stick also, or something else?

I also learned that you need to make sure the fondant doesn't go over the edge of the board. I thought it would look neater that way (and save trying to trim it evenly) and the ribbon would cover the edge. Unfortunately, when it dried and I tried to transport it, it broke because it was hanging over the edge so I had a crack on the top of the board, and it was then being held on only because of the ribbon! Just a tip for those of you trying for the first time!!

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KoryAK Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 7:00pm
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I have done it both ways (cut to edge and all the way over). They both work, but if I am doing, say, a 12" board, I glue 3 10" cardboards to the underside so that I can get my fingers underneath. This keeps the pressure off the fondant. I attach my fondant to the cardboard with either a spritz of water or a little royal icing. It doesn't have to be all over so much that you can't get it up again if you need to.

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namezmel Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 7:12pm
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I personally don't like the fondant, and use just the pretty cake foil to cover my boards. You can get the foil by the rolls at like Hobby Lobby, Micheals.. etc. I think it's also much easier, and still looks really pretty too.
Then to make it look nicer, you can also use your star tip, to make like a lace border around the edge of the bottom of the cake! I've gotten many of compliments on the lace border around the bottom of the cake too!!

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buffim Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 9:44pm
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thanks KoryAK, I'll give that a try for my cake next weekend.

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weirkd Posted 31 Jul 2007 , 10:02pm
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It also looks nice if you repeat the pattern of one of your tiers on the board. I did that with my toile cake and also my last baby shower cake. It just carrys the theme out and makes it look more professional.

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