I've done an fbct before, and was happy with the results, but would much rather be able to pipe directly onto the cake...saving a lot of time. I'd like to take my own black and white line drawing and transfer that to the top of the cake. I'll be using the buttercream dream recipe.
The only techniques I've heard of, besides fbct, are the toothpick technique and the "hot glue gun over laminated design" technique. Has anyone tried these? Any tips or ideas for how you create your own impression mat? I would really like something that would work for transferring your favorite font as well.
I've never tried any of these but you can try the piping gel transfer. You take wax paper over your design, do the outline in piping gel and then place it piping gel side down on the cake and use a paint brush to gently transfer the gel.
I have never done it, just read about it.
generally, you do the gel outline in a smaller tip than the buttercream outline, and you only use a little of the gel, so the buttercream completely covers the gel. It doesn't have any effect on the buttercream - you just transfer enough to give you a faint outline. You can use a pretty light color - like a yellow or something (or you can use the same colors you plan to outline in buttercream)
I'm going to be doing the same design as a cake I've done before (in my pics), black outline with a green fill....if I outline with the piping gel with a tip 1, and go over that with a tip 3 in black, is there any way to flood the inside of the design with bc? I don't want to have a wormy look, maybe I should thin out the bc a lot with corn syrup or milk?
LOVE The hot glue gun idea! Gonna start my library of tranfers!
All my characher sheets cakes are traced on the cake from paper cut outs. I did buy a bunch of cheap edible sheets from Kopykake - not the nice ones for printing, but not rice paper, can't remember what it is.
But now I trace the printout onto one of these sheets with edible marker, cut it out, place on the cake then pipe over it.
When I want to draw right on the cake -- I trace my patterns onto wax paper - use a pin to poke holes along the pattern in the wax paper (just do it over a cake circle or something. Then I lay the wax paper design on the cake and rub a nylon "footie" (pantyhose, new of course!) filled with cocoa powder. It leaves a dotted outline of my pattern on the icing that I can trace over. Works really well.
I don't know of any way to "flood" with buttercream though. I dip my finger in cornstarch and gently rub to smooth out the icing some.
Hope this helps.
You could also use a piece of cardstock...draw or copy your image onto it, place it on a piece of styrofoam, use a corsage pin to poke tiny holes onto all of your lines for the drawing....this will leave a little "kind of" braille image on the back, wait for your icing to crust put the cardstock on the cake and rub over it with your hand and it will leave a outline of the drawing that you want. Hope this helps, it was the only thing I could think of...and how I do my writing on cakes.
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