Attach it to a cake board with royal icing. This should stop it from sliding and give it more weight to hold it down. HTH
Patrice
I do a lot of dummy cakes and I do the royal icing method with the cake board. I also like to take a skinny dowel rod and place it in the center of the dummy and hold it while I ice it with the other hand. Hope this helps.
I use the icing under it and put a weight on top of it while I ice the sides.
If you order one piece, the shipping can seem expensive, but the more you order, the shipping is better.
Remember when you are ordering lightweight items, like styrofoam, you are paying more for the space it takes up in the truck rather than the standard method of paying according to the weight of the item.
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another question about cake dummies. I got some from Dallas Foam and also save-on-crafts.com for the completely round ball I used for my pumpkin. They were very nice and even cut the bottom flat for me at no extra charge. My question is...since I used all royal icing will it chip off or should I submerse the whole thing to wash the icing off? I want to now make a Christmas ornament in preparation for next years county fair. Thank you
I apply my BC directly to the dummy. When I'm ready to change (months and months later), I get my spatula under the layer of icing and run the spatula around the dummy .... the hardened icing pops right off and I'm ready to go for the next design.
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