Does Anyone Know How To Create A Pretty Stained Glass!
Decorating By dreamcakes Updated 13 Sep 2007 , 1:55pm by canoewoman
I would like to create a cake for a church anniversary , someone from cc gave me an idea to use a stained glass on my cake, but didn't know how to create it. would someone send me directions on how to do it. i know there are edible images but i would like to know if i can create it by hand.
There is also a way of making stained glass cookies out of crushed up lollies... you might be able to do that and use the pieces to make a stained glass topper in the shape of the windows behind the alter. ( think thats what its called)
You basically crush up the sweets and fill cutouts of the cookies and then bake them in the oven. I'm sure that could be some how adapted to make shapes that you could joint together with fondant or something like that...
Hope that it helps!
Yep you can use jolly ranchers or lifesavers. Not really sure how you could get a specific design this way but it is very realistic. It would even work if you wanted to do a 3d effect and have the window standing up on the cake. Diane your stained glass came out beautiful.
Here is a stained glass cake I did.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=556353
I just found a picture I liked from the internet, used the pin prick method to transfer the design onto my cake, did the outlines with black buttercream and then filled in with tinted piping gel. Kinda of time-consuming, but pretty simple and fun.
I have a question on using the jolly ranchers....wouldn't it be really hard? Like using them in cookies like gingerkitten79's photos show? Just curious.
I did this for my son's preschool (jsut before Easter) as a fundraiser for March of Dimes. I took a piece of clipart, you can make a mirror image if you need to, taped it down to a cookie sheet and covered with wax paper. With black icing (store bought fudge with added wilton black) piped my outlines. Put it in the freezer to get good and hard. Once frozen, I transferred it to my iced sheet cake...carefully pulling of the wax paper backing. Then, I filled each space with the appropriate colored piping gel. TADA! I got so many compliments on this cake. I was pretty proud of it myself. Good luck!
I did mine using a piping gel plaque. I did a mirror image, placed parchment over and traced out the whole thing with black piping gel. I then filled it all in with the different colored gels and let it dry for 48 hours. I also rolled out a thin piece of fondant to the matching shape and let it dry as well. After the 48 hours I placed the fondant over the image and took a wet paper towel to the back of the parchment. It came right off and I could them move my image anywhere I needed to. It was my first time doing it and I think it worked really well!
One tip though, when you add a lot of color to piping gel it can make it bitter so use the pre-tinted colors or add a bit of clear vanilla to the gel when mixing your colors!
The image is the stained glass birthday cake in my photos.
Tracy
On Food Network last night they made stained glass windows using sugar (equivalent to hard candy recipe) . You could pre-form the stained glass pieces, put on cake and then use black icing for the lead. A lot of work but the end result would be fantastic.
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