I am making a fall cake and I need to know how to make pretty fall leaves. Can anyone help?
Michael's has some good leaf cookie cutters. They have a small set out and some larger ones. I just cut them out of fondant, and use my gumpaste tools to give them detail.
When I did these, I used real Maple leaves as my template (yellow cake); on the orange cake ,I used cookie cutters. The real maples leaves looked more realistic.
You can use leaf cookie cutters and make fondant leaves. Imprint veins to make them look more realistic and dry some of them on flower formers so they curve a little.
I am doing a fall cake and I am going to make sugar cookies shaped like leaves and place them around the base of the cake.
I just recently made two different fall cakes for people. I loved the leaves. i made them out of different colored fondant and then cut them with a small fondant cutter set that I purchased at hobby lobby. I didn't have anything to vein it with so while they were sill soft, I just lightly used a paring knife to make the lines. The pictures are posted on this site if you wanted to see them
This is my first experience with posting on cc, (be gentle! ggg) I made a fall cake yesterday. I had basketweave on the sides and the top of the basket filled with silk sunflowers and pumpkins, etc. I have used Wilton gel colorings with no problems before. I opened up a brand new tub of brown and used just enough color to make the basket almost the color of peanut butter pie. Very pretty! But it tasted terrible. almost a bitter taste! I know red can leave a taste......what others should I be careful of? VERY EMBARRASSING! Next time it will be chocolate!
joannie4464- I just did the same thing. Made a fall basketweave cake and instead of making chocolate buttercream I used a tube of brown, which made the same color you are talking about. I dont know how it tasted though, now I am nervous since you said it didnt taste so good! Its in my pics.
I used mmf and cookie cutters to make my leaves. I placed them on a plate with a small amount of corn starch and they hardened up emough to work with.
If the person doesn't mind chocolate..you can melt some Nestle quick in a little water and add it in the brown mixture..takes the bitterness out and you don't have to make a chocolate buttercream or icing to make black. But that is just with some trial and error practicing...doesn't even give it a very big chocolate flavor..just helps with the bitterness (n fact it is sweet) and I don't have to turn around and make a different flavor icing just to get black...that is how I got the black in my school bus picture. JMO
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