I'm going to attempt making my first cake dummy. I've spent the last year practicing on real cake then giving them away. Didn't mind it but now everyone's complaining about how I've been making them fat. Anyways I bought foam insulation boards, going to cut them and stack. I want to cover one with fondant and do one with out. If you have any suggestions, tips or advice I would love to hear them. I did a search and read a few previous posts on this but was hoping to get more info. Can I use regular BC without the butter? Fondant and gumpaste flowers? If yes how long do they normally last? I read that some people use water and some use piping gel to attach fondant can I use BC? Do I have to make them the same size I would make my cakes? How should I store them? Thanks so much for any and all help!
I use piping gel to attach fondant to my dummies. It works well and is cheap. You can use "buttercream" just use shortening and sugar. I would make them the same size as your cakes. That will be easiest for you to recreate them again in real cake.
Good Luck!
Actually I think you'll find it easier to buy actual foam cake dummies, especially when you consider the effort to cut perfect - not to mention perfectly identical - circles, glue and stack out of foam core. Also probably would be cheaper too. Check out Dallas Foam Company, they're pretty reasonable even with shipping.
http://www.dallas-foam.com/store/cakedummies.html
To answer your question about polyurethane, I wouldn't use it simply because it will make everything shiny/glossy and that would look weird IMHO If you're going to be using fondant, it will eventually dry hard and then you can use a compressed air duster to blow the dust off as needed (or store covered in plastic to keep dust off altogether). If you want the BC effect instead of fondant, use royal icing.
Good luck!
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