I want to make a cake that look like challah (braided bread), so I was thinking of putting fondant over a plastic wrapped toy challah to get the indentations really well. Then I planned to paint the color on with watered down paste colors, and when dry go over it with corn syrup for gloss, like a fresh baked bread would have. Finally I thought I would fill the indentures (underside) with frosting before putting this on top of the cake. and pulling the fondant around to the bottom.
Will this work? Should I put it on the cake and then do all the painting? I use mmf. How long will this stay pliable? Does anyone have any better suggestions?
Thanks,
Kathi
moydear77,
I was thinking of making them about 12 inches long, about 2 inches high. Are you suggesting making the loafs completely out of fondant? I would like it to be cake. What about covering the cake with fondant and then fodant braids that are a smoothed into the base fondant? Would that work?
Kathi
Actually, if you airbrush it, it should maintain a certain amount of shine. If you look at my cheeseburger cake, the shine that is on the bun is from fondant that was airbrushed, nothing else was needed. Since you are doing bread, you can use a Preval, which you can buy at many hardware stores. It is a can of compressed air that comes with a jar to hold whatever you are spraying. I think the kit is around $7, and you can replace the compressed air cylinder. I have not tried it yet, but I have heard good words about it.
By the way, challah is my favorite of all breads. It's great the next day, too, for French Toast.
Theresa
Ok that is big! I guress what I would do is eather roll it from rice krispies or uses a filler such as tin foil. If the fondant is dry enough you could make it from all fodant but it might starte to droop.
As far as coloring airbrushing will start to become matte after drying-Unless it is super humid. You can do two things to make it shiny-Fisrt is to paint it with piping gel or you could hit it with steam and that will make it shine for a couple of hours. Hope this helps!
Okay...I'm a little lost on the Preval/airbrushing thing. I'm not typically a cake decorator, this is for my daughter's Bat Mitzvah. So if I buy this Preval thing, what do I put in the container? Is there a special airbrush coloring? By the way I love your cake. I have had it saved so I could get color ideas for my bread. 
Is there a reason I shouldn't make the challah out of cake? Just wondering since you've suggested rice krispies and fondant. Or are you saying you would put these on top of the cake? I'm a little confused on this. I really want two challah shaped cakes (to go next to the cake shaped like a bowl of raw dough with a towel folded back over it). I'm not ambitious at all!!! 
Kathi
The preval is a cheap air brush and is handy to have around. It is five bucks here and you can use it for other things also.
I was seeing that you were putting this on top of a cake?? You could carve and cover with fondant and just use some ball tools to enhance the braid lines from the carved cake.
Hello Kathik
I recently bought a cake pan at Walmart; when you flip it over it looks like a large braid, close enough to the shape of a challah.
See if you can find a similar cake pan; then you can make you challah as a cake & easily cover it with fondant. (you can color the fondant to look like a golden brown & cover the whole cake with it; then add some detail or hghlights with color thinned with vodka or white rum, not water).
Hope this helpls.
ciao
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