Ok Think I Made A Oops....need Advice On Anniversary Cake
Decorating By wgoat5 Updated 11 Oct 2007 , 11:15am by wgoat5
Ok here it goes. I have a Anni. cake due on the 21st. The sizes are 14, 10 and 6. It is going to have scroll work with homemade pearls on the ends of the scrolls...here's my dilema....I made my pearls with the # 12 tip. And I thought I'd use the # 18 tip to do the scroll work...BUT...now I am thinking the #18 is going to be too scrawny a tip to do scroll work for the bigger cake. AND the pearls I made might be too small. What tip should I use to make this cake look uniform and should I make the pearls AGAIN (I made about 300 lol) in the smallest round cutter (wilton cutter)?
I want this cake to look nice and uniform. The top has a bow with side loops.
Oh oh oh one more question. If I do a star tip to do the scroll work how do I make sure the icing goes through the tip without looking too dry. Should I thin the icing with some corn syrup before doing the piping?
What are your opinions because I do value them GREATLY!
Thank you so much and please have a great day guys !
Christi
I think the cake would probably look more uniform if you used small, medium and large pearls & scroll work, because there is such a big difference in the size of each cake......I guess that would mean lots more work though!!!
I would do that but I think it would throw the look off 
. You roll out your fondant (I used white chocolate chocopan.) about 1/8 inch thick and take your tip and keep punching holes in it till you get a strip of dots coming out of the tip. Then you break them apart and roll them on a little sponge or I guess the palm of your hand. Let them dry a little bit and roll them in some lustre dust or pearl dust, which I did.
Thank you for responding I just don't think that would work . But I appreciate your input 
Christi
#1-you CAN freeze your pearls, i always over make a quantity, and NO WAY am i gonna waste that work. won't they come in handy SOME day...
#2-i'd change the size of my scroll tip before i'd ditch the function of those 300 pearls....can you make the 18 scroll as thinly as possible for the smaller cake, or do you really think it's too big a tip? \\I"m not sure if follow how your scroll work with an 18....
#3- oR use a smaller than 18 tip.
#4IF you have to remake pearls, call your best friend, sit up late into the night chatting, rolling, etc. the best time i ever had rolling/cutting pearls was with a gal pal!
for future info. check earlene moore's site...she uses the ateco tips in graduated size for a large variety of pearl sizes.....
hope i was remotely clear, i really hate the thought of you having to start from scratch
sally
I think what I need to do is just maybe take some icing in a bag with the 18 and check and see if I think the pearls will be too small. I have never placed pearls on scrolls so it is new to me. So I don't even know if I stick it in the scrolls or at the very very tip of the scroll SOOOO many questions to little time LOL
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