What Do All Of You Use To Attach A Fondant Drape
Decorating By terrylee Updated 3 Aug 2007 , 3:43am by terrylee
I USED SATIN ICE FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST WEEK.....LOVE THE WAY IS WORKS, TASTE AND THE SMELL IS INCREDIBLE....
.MY QUESTION IS WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND TO BE A GOOD "GLUE" TO ATTACH A DRAPE...I USED A DAB OF WATER...IT HELD BUT I HAD TO SUPPORT IT FOR A WHILE. ANY SUGGESTIONS....?
I don't know, I'm waiting for an answer too. I need to attach a fondant plaque to buttercream....
bump!
Maybe gum glue? Tear a small peice of gumpaste into little pieces and let sit in a bit of water (1/4 cup) for about 1 hour.
I have always used water in the past because it seems like that was what I was told to do, but like you it isn't "instant setting" and they would often fall off while delivering.
I just saw a demo on fondant draping at the ICES convention and the very talented gal that gave the demo used buttercream and it worked really well. If she was doing the swag on the side she would put a line of buttercream in a "smile" shape right where she wanted the swag to go. On her drapes she would just put some wherever the drape was going to touch the actual cake.
So I am ready to try that, the next cake I do with draping.
Hope this helps!
We recently attached drapes all around the edge of a fondant-covered cake board using the above-mentioned gum glue--a marble-sized piece of gumpaste diluted in 1-2 Tbl. water. I personally feel the thicker the glue is the better, but you do want it to be glue, not paste. These drapes were attached only along the top edge as the rest hung off the bottom of the board (board then rested on a pedestal cake plate). Since this was decorative only we used the Wilton fondant, which dries hard as a rock. Drapes were secure after holding in place for just a moment, and after drying overnight the whole thing was very solid. We had to transport an hour away, then construct the tiers, and everything arrived intact.
I've used vanilla and it has worked nicely for me.
Good luck!
Angie
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