Great question - I'd like to know too. My husband is a firefighter and has a birthday coming up next month. Anyone have any tips?
I've seen them done by cutting them out flat and leaving them to dry and by rolling pointy topped "balls" of fondant - each ball being an individual flame.
Hope that helps!
Deb
If you want realistic looking flames they are very nice cut from wafer paper or gumpaste and then airbrushed orange, red and yellow. Or if you want more of a cartoony look like the ones Duff Goldman does on his fist of rock cake they are made of fondant and shaped kind of like a Hershey's Kiss. Here is a link to mine.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=ShirleyW&cat=0&pos=2
when I made flames for my star wars cake I used fruit roll ups and attached them to a piece of fondant.
You know someone made some really awesome flames on a Gravedigger cake. I think she posted it yesterday, they looked pretty neat but I don't know how she made them.
If you go search gravedigger in the gallery you will see it. Looks like it was the fabulous work of aprilmanning.
They look similar to the ones I made for my Harley Davidson cake. I made mine with chocolate.
Debbie
when I made flames for my star wars cake I used fruit roll ups and attached them to a piece of fondant.
Those flames look really neat! Did you have fondant cut out in the shape of flames and then let it harden before you attached the fruit rollup?
I have a campfire cake coming up next weekend, sorry to stick my question in someone else's post.
nichi ~ if you were referring to my HD flames - yes. Just place your picture under waxed or parchment paper and pipe the chocolate and let cool - wa lah! flames!
Debbie
On my candles I made little tear drop shapes let them dry and then painted with food color. I think if you want 2D flames I would cut out pieces that would look like waves and some tear drops and then just hand paint like I did the teardrops......PM me if you have questions.
I used a cutter from the Wilton Gumpaste Flower kit that is shaped liked a flame. If you look in my photos the Halloween Barbie Witch has the flames around the cauldron.
I think the leaves in the Wilton fondant cutter leaf cutter set resemble flames, maybe overlapping them a bit, as does the maple leaf cookie cutter, minus the tail and sharpening the points of the leaves a bit.
I marbled red, orage and yellow fondant together and it looked cool.
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