Copying A Napkin Image, Lines- Circles, Easiest Way?
Decorating By jjbrink Updated 23 Sep 2007 , 2:15pm by moptop
so, i do all my cakes in bc icing. a friend wants me to make a butterfly cake to match the napkins for her daughters 1st b-day. i am attaching the picture of the napkin.
its going to be a square cake. i pretty confident in making the cake. the only thing is i am trying to figure out the easiest way to apply the white circle around the butterfly? i hope that is not too confusing...
my plan of attact with the lines is to do all the stiped colors then flatten them out smooth. it would be no prob. if i didnt have a circle to add to the mix. how would / should i go about it in the easiest way??
maybe the circle the after i get that done butt the lines up to it and the smooth it all out together? i really dont want the circular piece to stand above the cake. but then again, what would look best??
any suggestion i would much need 
I would do the whole circle image in a FBCT (frozen buttercream transfer) and then once on the cake I would do the strips. I would do the stips with a flat tip, the basket weave tip but on the smooth side. The dots, well dots with a #3 or something like that. I hope that helps some.
Vicky
Hun, I would do a frozen buttercream transfer FBCT for the butterfly image. It would be lots easier than tryin to NOT ice certain places or trying to smooth it out and still have it be circular. and nice looking. There is a wonderful tutorial in the article section here that explains it in lovely detail with pics to boot!! 
Cake_Mooma..........great minds.........lol
i have tried fbct a few times, but they seem to mess up on me for some reason. sticking to the wax paper (i did leave it in the freezer long enough. i do think the problem was not using butter in my icing. i use all crisco). and also it tend to look "wrinkly"?
that would probly be the best bet though. if i did it that way, fbct, i would go ahead and do all the stripes, then just flip that on top- in that case not care if it was slightly higher than the striped part.
ok...so i guess it is a fbct. i am so tired
funtomake- here is the tutorial for the frozen buttercream transfer FTBC. hope it helps ya!
http://www.cakecentral.com/article12-How-To-Create-a-Frozen-Buttercream-Transfer.html
jjbrink--runout is another term for colorflow--basically thinned RI. Draw or scan the image. Tape wax paper or parchment over the image. Use regular RI and a #2 tip to draw the outline, then fill in. Let dry completely. If on parchment it will release easily, if on wax paper you need to be more careful.
I would just ice the whole cake in white. Then mark your circle by tracing w/ a toothpick around something the size you want your circle to be. Pipe your stripes up to the toothpick line, smooth them. Then pipe a border around the ends of them all around the toothpick line. Then add your butterfly. Hope that makes sense. I think it will look good w/ the white circle kind of inset into the stripes. Post pictures!
I would just ice the whole cake in white. Then mark your circle by tracing w/ a toothpick around something the size you want your circle to be. Pipe your stripes up to the toothpick line, smooth them. Then pipe a border around the ends of them all around the toothpick line. Then add your butterfly. Hope that makes sense. I think it will look good w/ the white circle kind of inset into the stripes. Post pictures!
This was the first thing that came to mind for me too.
The second was to cut out a circle of waxpaper and lay it on the cake while I did the lines, then pull it up and I have my white circle.
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