I am doing a rocket ship birthday cake for my son who will be 4 on Saturday. It is going to be three tiered a base with stars and swirls, a 1/2 cratered planet, and a 3-D rocket ship. My question is about the base cake.
It is going to be midnight blue and I want to incorporate some combined swirls (nebulas, galaxies, etc.) of white, orange, lighter blue, lime green & purple. How can I achieve this effect in fondant? Any suggestions?
Thanks so much.
I have attached a picture of a cake by collete peters-this is the look i'm essentially going for ...any suggestions how to achieve this swirl effect?
that looks like it was painted on in gel colors. Mix your gel colors with a little alcohol to thin and speed drying. Paint with a brush.
Before I saw your picture and I was processing how you might get what you were describing I was thinking you could roll out some marbled fondant into several long thin "sausages", spin them into a coil on your work space and but them all up to each other then roll them flat.
I didn't really want to paint, simply b/c it is not eater friendly (coloring lips, teeth, tongue etc.) but it may come to that...The tiny "sausage" idea is intriguing...that might work. Thanks for the suggestions!
you could marbleize tha fondant blue. Just take white fondant and add blue then don't mix it fully. You may not be able to achive the exact swiling patter but you will be able to get the same effect. You could paint just using water with a little color mixed into it, sort of like water paints. If you did the marble method you could do cut outs for the stars out of yellow fondant and that would give you sort of a cool 3d effect.
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