Cake Dummies Veterans - Need Advice

Decorating By tiptop57 Updated 24 Nov 2006 , 8:33am by denise4

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tiptop57 Posted 22 Nov 2006 , 2:20pm
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Help: When using cake dummies how do you attach them to your cake board. Also, how do you attach them to each other especially for competitions and travel?

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karateka Posted 22 Nov 2006 , 3:26pm
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Well, I'm no veteran, but I attatch my dummies to cake boards with double sided tape. And to each other with icing. anyone else?

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moydear77 Posted 22 Nov 2006 , 5:21pm
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I use royal icing.

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Richard Posted 23 Nov 2006 , 7:57pm
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I attach them using icing and it works.

Kathy

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tiggy2 Posted 23 Nov 2006 , 8:05pm
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I attach then to the board with ring shank nails and they don't slip at all. Then attach to each other with icing.

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denise4 Posted 23 Nov 2006 , 10:40pm
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I use royal icing.




I used royal icing too on the few I did in the past, I have'nt done any that are stacked yet, but I want to try this to practice for my DD's wedding next year, and after talking to a lady in my local cake decorating supply shop she advised me to use dowels as well, like you would do with cake...HTH.

Denise

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Shalan Posted 23 Nov 2006 , 10:49pm
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I use icing to attach to the board. I take a pencil sharpener and sharpen the end of a dowel and drive it through the dummies to secure them. I recently did this for a 6 tier cake i did for a bridal fair and it didn't budge in transporting or anything. Of course with that many tiers I used multiple rods and doweled each tier after the second one. Worked great. And they were really easy to remove with a pair of needlenose pliers so you could take the cake apart and wash and reuse the dummies.

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Sugarbean Posted 23 Nov 2006 , 11:18pm
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I use dowels and a hot glue gun on dried fondant. Don't use the hot glue gun on the actual styro, as it will melt it icon_wink.gif

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moydear77 Posted 24 Nov 2006 , 1:26am
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Originally Posted by moydear77

I use royal icing.



I used royal icing too on the few I did in the past, I have'nt done any that are stacked yet, but I want to try this to practice for my DD's wedding next year, and after talking to a lady in my local cake decorating supply shop she advised me to use dowels as well, like you would do with cake...HTH.

Denise




You do not need any Dowels at all. I did a five tier and drove from Minnesota to Tulsa on the cake stand and it was fine.

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BlakesCakes Posted 24 Nov 2006 , 3:33am
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Hot glue on everything--works like a charm--no slippage, etc.

Rae

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denise4 Posted 24 Nov 2006 , 8:33am
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Moydear77, youve saved me a lot of messing about, cheers, glad to know theres no need to dowel. thumbs_up.gif

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