How do you make a (as close as possible) small shimmery snowflakes. I bought shimmer dust and those glittery sparkles that can go on the cakes, but have never worked with them. Do I paint on some clear gel and sprinkle them om carefully, or do I make small fondant snowflakes and paint on the shimmery dust and then place on the cake, or is there a better way? I hope this is making sense.....sorry
thanks for the quick response.
You can also go with Royal Icing snowflakes. I have one in my photos where I did that. You just need to thin the icing down to a thick liquid and pipe them on waxed paper. I printed out sheets of snowflakes and piped many at once. When they are dry you can put them on the cake. Depending upon how much time you want to spend - you can make some very delicate ones.
Make sure to show us your photo when you're done.
I love the idea of using unbreakable gel and sprinkling glitter in that - I guess that would be more transparent than royal icing. I also have a snowflake cake in my photos with royal icing piped snowflakes - just make sure you leave heaps of time for them to dry properly before handling them - about two days. I can't resist prodding at royal icing stuff and invariably break it (like a scab - nice!)
I'm making practice cakes today and going to try the gel with the sparkles sprinkled over it today on reg. buttercream, tomorrow the mmf with sprinkles, and on tuesday the royal. I love the royal icing snowflakes you two have in your photos, I wish I was 1/10 as talented as you all on here!!!!! I'm trying to see which techniques results I like better, thanks for all the advice. This is my first paid cake and all the knowlege I have on cakes has seemed to go away with the phone call placing the order! Thanks again, Melissa
wow, didn't know that about adding the gum paste...makes sense though. (so that's why it took a week to dry 
) definitely gonna try that.
~Beth 
i love the idea of pipping royal icing on parchment over printed out flakes, then sprinkle with the edible glitter.
i used candy melts on my sea shells cake. tip number 3. worked great!
I didn't realize those were all candy melts! yep... the shells are white candy melts in sea shell molds and the coral is white candy melts piped onto wax or parchment paper with a number 3 tip. much easier than it looks!
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