I have made a cake with Santa fishing and I used spaghetti (uncooked) for his pole. What I need is an idea for the fishing line without using the real thing. I want whatever it is to be edible (not to be eaten necessarily). The cake is a dummy and iced in royal icing. I tried making a royal icing string but it was too fragile. The picture is in my photos. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Joanne

Maybe a thin strip of fruit roll-up? Never tried it before -- just an idea.

only thing I can think of is thread of melted sugar...but even that will be fragile.

Dental floss, it's safe or we couldn't floss with it!

I used the dental floss and painted it with wilton brown coloring. I put it on Mater towing up Lightening from the side of a smash cake. I recently made it for great nephew but don't have a picture yet. But it worked fine. I hope that helps.

I have no idea if this would work or not, but it's the first thing that came to mind:

Melt a white/clear gumdrop in the microwave for a few seconds, stick a toothpick in it and pull out a "string".

Great ideas! Thank you all.
Joanne

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