you would be able to paint this, but it won't give you the same look. The alcohol painting isn't going to give you the defined dark lines that makes this cake stand out. This has definetly been piped on, using a henna-inspired design.
Personally, I would use RI...or perhaps even boiled icing. I think it makes the nicest piped work and you wouldn't run the risk of it melting or running. Also, if you make a mistake, RI and boiled icing is very easy to lift off with a toothpick. You can't do that very easily with buttercream. Just my opinion...
My first tought was;"Stencils and melted chocolate".
After you paint the chocolate over the stencil,the chocolate would harden and give it that 3D look.But this may not be possible.Just the tought.Let us know how you do it,and how it turned out.I would really love to know how this was done myself.GOOD LUCK.
I'd either make royal icing shapes on waxed paper and stick them on - only piping the smallest parts directly to the cake OR I'd have a design printed on paper and press that on to the cake using the nib of a broken ballpoint or something not too sharp and then pipe directly over the indentations.
I'd either make royal icing shapes on waxed paper and stick them on - only piping the smallest parts directly to the cake OR I'd have a design printed on paper and press that on to the cake using the nib of a broken ballpoint or something not too sharp and then pipe directly over the indentations.
This is how Mike's amazing cakes has done it....thake the image and slip it under a piece of parchament paper....pipe the design on the paper with royal and let it dry...now you have a perfect image to press gently into your icing, giving you the pattern to follow easily.
When I did my pink and chocolate cake in my photos we used buttercream - it was terrible to remove - I would go with royal!
The wilton press set did work and we also used a needle to prick the fondant to make a little dot-to-dot- to follow for the other designs or to add on to a loop, etc.
Good luck!
That is similar to one of the cakes they did on Duff's show ~ maybe you could email them and ask what it was that they used for that particular cake. I don't know what was in the parchment bag she was using, but she did it directly on the cake, and it was in a tiny parchment bag.
I would say piped on with RI. Make a google search for MEHNDI, it will give you lots and lots of patterns to follow. Now for Duff's show - the girl pipped it free hand just eye-following some mehndi patterns. Duff was even saying that this girl was better at pipping small details that he is. HTH!
The link. Scroll down to the bottom - Marydesmith. It was royal icing.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=42849&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=mendhi&&start=45
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