NOTE: I have a Wed deadline. Your prompt help is very much appreciated!!!
Hello! 
I am making a bday cake for a 13 year old boy. He's into spooky creepy stuff (think very gross Halloween) and I have a cake in mind. I want to make the top layer into an eyeball. The cake I will make with a ball pan, the white part of the eye I will do by covering the cake with white fondant. The other two parts of the eye is what I have a problem with.
I know I can make the eye color (you know, blue if you are blue eyed) and the smaller black parts from fondant - but it want the eye to look as realistic as possible. Is there a way to make the color part of the eye look gelatinous and watery like a real eye?
I'm NOT an experienced cake decorator so please no ideas that require purchasing equipment like for air brushing!! I am more than willing to try new recipes and methods so any help you can give me is appreciated.
I agree piping gel should work
piping gel it is. thank you!
NOTE: I have a Wed deadline. Your prompt help is very much appreciated!!!
Hello!
I am making a bday cake for a 13 year old boy. He's into spooky creepy stuff (think very gross Halloween) and I have a cake in mind. I want to make the top layer into an eyeball. The cake I will make with a ball pan, the white part of the eye I will do by covering the cake with white fondant. The other two parts of the eye is what I have a problem with.
I know I can make the eye color (you know, blue if you are blue eyed) and the smaller black parts from fondant - but it want the eye to look as realistic as possible. Is there a way to make the color part of the eye look gelatinous and watery like a real eye?
I'm NOT an experienced cake decorator so please no ideas that require purchasing equipment like for air brushing!!
I am more than willing to try new recipes and methods so any help you can give me is appreciated.
As stated above, I painted on a thin layer of piping gel to bring the eyes to life when I made a shrek cake 2 weeks ago.
Invest in some paint brushes ov various sizes, use the fine pointed brush to paint on the flecks in the eye. When brushing the piping gel on, brush towards the color not away from it. This will prevent the color from spreading onto the white portion of the eye.
Have a look:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=872483
As stated above, I painted on a thin layer of piping gel to bring the eyes to life when I made a shrek cake 2 weeks ago.
Invest in some paint brushes ov various sizes, use the fine pointed brush tI'o paint on the flecks in the eye. When brushing the piping gel on, brush towards the color not away from it. This will prevent the color from spreading onto the white portion of the eye.
Have a look:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=872483
WOW Cake_Princess...I am impressed!
Thanks for the tip on the brushes. Do you happen to have a larger version of that Shrek photo you could send my way? I'd LOVE to take a closer look at the eyes.
As stated above, I painted on a thin layer of piping gel to bring the eyes to life when I made a shrek cake 2 weeks ago.
Invest in some paint brushes ov various sizes, use the fine pointed brush tI'o paint on the flecks in the eye. When brushing the piping gel on, brush towards the color not away from it. This will prevent the color from spreading onto the white portion of the eye.
Have a look:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=872483
WOW Cake_Princess...I am impressed!
Thanks for the tip on the brushes. Do you happen to have a larger version of that Shrek photo you could send my way? I'd LOVE to take a closer look at the eyes.
Thank you. LOL... I think I shocked myself with this one to I'm not good doing faces.
Here is a pic I cropped so you can see the eyes close up. Just click on the image below.
I also would brush on piping gel. I would heat the piping gel in the microwave to thin it a little. That should make it go in more smoothly for you. Good Luck.
There is no need to heat it up. Just remove a bit from the container and paint it on. If the piping gel is a bit lumpy looking in the container use a clean spatula and stir it but that's it.
jigglers with milk! What a great idea!
the cake i was making was for a friend's son. we talked about it some more and she decided she wanted to make the cake instead. They are going on a trip and coming back in a couple of week so i am making my gory halloweenish cake when they return - perhaps I'll use the milk jigglers idea! for a bday present i took yummy home-made dinner roll instead of cake.
i will let you all know how the cake turn out when it doe turn out!
thank for the advice!
In the future, if you want an eye that can be cut open, you can use jigglers with milk as the liquid. They don't melt out of the fridge, and slice just like a real eye.
You DID say he liked Halloweenish....
Eeewwwww! I like it! Do you make the jigglers with the same measurements, just using milk in place of water?
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