Straight Lines With An Unsteady Hand
Decorating By kellycakes4949 Updated 11 Sep 2007 , 4:29pm by kellycakes4949
I am making my sister-in-law's wedding cake and she really likes the look of this one attached. I am doing something similar, with some modifications.
My question is on the bottom layer, I am assuming the gold stripes are painted on using luster dust or something similar onto strips of fondant. How on earth can I get the gold stripes so perfect? I have a very unsteady hand and free-handing will not work well for me. Any suggestions?
I am sure there will be better suggestions but the first thing that came to my mind is a projector. Then your just tracing over the shadows.
Good question! I don't think I could do it! I wish I had an answer for you!
If you use a sugarcraft gun or clay gun you can extrude strips of fondant which you can then paint. To help you position the strips you can use a set square or triangle to make sure your strips are positioned straight.
This doesn't look like real ribbon but thin stripes of fondant painted gold. Besides would would want to have to remove all of those non edible ribbon if it were real ribbon which it doesn't look like to me. A clay gun would be useful for this design.
Thanks for your replies. A stencil is a great idea, I think I'll go that route!
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