A customer would like houndstooth print for an Alabama Roll Tide themed cake like Bear Bryant's pattern. He wants it on fondant. He 1st called Thursday wanting it for Saturday and I was like, are you kidding me????? so I talked him out of it for this weekend or "no cake for you!!!", so I am posting this to get any and all suggestions for making hounds tooth.... come one come all 
this may or may not work but its worth a try (if you are experimenting first). i would print out houndstooth pattern and then take an exacto knife and cut out the alternating color (either black or white) and then use a marker (or paintbrudh and carefully (without it going under the paper) paint over the cut out in the correct color. Then alternate.
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I had to do this for an alabama cake. I printed the hound's tooth pattern from the internet onto a clear plastic (overhead projection) sheet, then cut the paper in half lengthwise to create a "sleeve" to put around the outside of the white fondant. Hope this helps
mears202 do you have a photo of this cake, I didn't see it in your gallery, I would love to take looksie? Did you paint the over the openings of the hounds tooth, or airbrush, use it as a stencil? I know I am asking a lot of questions, I just want to get this just right, HUGE client for me..... and I want/need to earn his business... he owns the perfect little store in town that is NEEDING me as much as I NEED them, thanks!
I must say, you have quite a challenge there! I don't know if you have a way to print out a frosting sheet; but maybe you could find one and print the pattern out on that!
Hi, no i didn't take a picture im sorry! when my customer asked for the hounds tooth i told them that the pattern would be really hard to do on an edible surface, so the actual cake (middle layer) was covered in white fondant, then I made a clear collar (like you would put around a cheesecake, see www.cakedeco.com item # 559700) by using a copy machine to print a hounds tooth pattern that i found on the internet on to a clear overhead projector sheet. I'll see if i still have that pattern saved as a full sheet and send it to you. they just removed that collar when they were ready to cut the cake, but the white fondant showed through the black pattern and it looked great. Hope this helps!
When I did patterns like this or a toile or something similar, I just printed out an edible image and pieced it on top of the cake.
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