Hello! Does anyone have instructions on how to make edible bamboo? I want to place it all around the sides of a round cake. Any help (and pictures) would be hugely appreciated!
Thank you!
Emily
Hi Emily,
Here is a cake I iced lightly in Italian meringue buttercream, colored fondant kind of a sagey green with paste or gel colors. I used Wiltons Moss green mixed with a little brown, I made ropes or sausages of fondant and pushed them through my clay gun or extruder with no disc on the end, just the plunger, then I cut them to the length I needed for the height of the cake, pinched the section marks with a pair of tweezers, added them one at a time to the cake, made a few fondant leaves that I stuck on here and there with a little dab of corn syrup or you could use water, just not too much. Then I dusted them randomly with cocoa brown petal dust, you could use just cocoa powder. One thing to watch for, as you lay each bamboo piece against the side of the cake keep checking to make sure they are straight, otherwise by the time you get all the way around the cake they will be leaning at an angle.
Your cake is beautiful! I don't have a clay gun though 
does anyone have any suggestions?
This one is in my favorites (I love this cake!). It's by eor112. Looks like she handmade the bamboo from fondant.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=857493
Shirley- I have always admired that cake!
But I also do not have an extruder, so I opted for using pirouette cookies. Peperidge Farms has a vanilla flavor that looks the best, I think. Look in my pics for the two tiki cakes I did this way.
you could cheat like I did a couple weeks ago, and use pirouette cookies. I actually used the french vanilla and the chocolate mint ones and did them alternately on the cake. Just beware that they get soggy after awhile. My cake wasn't cut until the next day, had I known that, I would have waited to put the cookies on it.
This one is in my favorites (I love this cake!). It's by eor112. Looks like she handmade the bamboo from fondant.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=857493
This is a cute cake, but I cant quit laughing... the bamboo looks like fingers missing some digits. I hope no one gets mad.. 
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