I went to the Oklahoma State show and i saw the winner cake..She did some Extension work hanging from nothing but air.. I can get over it...I have tried to search on how is done but they always talk about a bridge...Pls...someone explain...I am attaching the photo so u can see what I am talking about!

That is beautiful work.

typically, the cake is tilted so the strands hang down until they are dry, then the cake is turned for the next section.

It takes a lot of practice, and getting the hang of royal icing.

How do they achieve the scalloped then???

I think the scalloped is piped first and then lines are piped from top to the bottom of scallop.

I think the scalloped is piped first and then lines are piped from top to the bottom of scallop.

You do what they call drop loops first and build that a bite maybe 3 on tope of each other and then you do what they call string work where you drop lines from the side of the cake. Its all done in royal icing. Very time comsuming and you need a lot of practice to be able to get you loops the same size and length everytime. And just for the record I can do it and have done so. You can also add $100 per cake for the work if not more.

Christine Flynn's Extension Work is a great book on the subject if you want to get into that sort of thing.

i am not quite sure how they do it below the board...but the ones close to the cake...they put pins in and pipe the scallop useing the pins as support..then they do the other lines and when its dry they carefully remove the pins.

Couldn't each of the scallops be done, flat, on a board, allowed to dry, then attached to the cake? I would think that would be a lot easier.

kjgjam22's explanation is correct.

I had my camera set to super zoom on all of those cakes. There was some amazing stringwork going on!

http://www.half.ebay.com/
has a copy of Christine's book but it's $57. I spelled it wrong. It's Flinn, not Flynn. Sorry about that.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1853915777/?tag=cakecentral-20

God Bless America!!!! Ya'll have GOT to see this!!!!!!

http://www.ladycakes.com/images/ICES2003/ABC%20String%20Work%20Top01057.jpg

I know that Toba Garrett does a lot of work like this, and I've seen other books from the library (mostly from England and Australia) that feature elaborate "bridge" or "string" work.

Great score on info here....

http://www.cake-decorating-tips.com/DSP10.pdf

Several different ways to accomplish stringwork.

The technique used on the cake in question is described toward the bottom of page 45...bridgework

I've seen a little here and there in books but the Flinn book has the most techniques I've seen in one place. It's pretty thorough and lots of pictures on the how to.

The pin part i understand...but there was an area were there are no place to put pins..everything was hanging in the air

I thought I saw a lady doing this on youtube. Maybe you could try to check and see. I think I just typed in cake decorating.