What Color Buttercream For Edible Images?
Decorating By SusieHazCakes Updated 27 Mar 2008 , 4:11pm by Bettycrockermommy
I'm doing my first edible images this weekend and they're whoppers! I'm make an 8-inch cube cake and it'll look like a photo cube, so I'll have five 8-in. square images. The photos will be on the darkish side like the one I've attached here. Should I use just a plain white buttercream? Will it show through the image? I'm sure when I actually get the images and start playing with them, it'll be more clear, but I'm trying to plan how it'll work.
I'm going to put black fondant strips around the edges to kind of frame the photos and figured I'd do that after the images have set. Do I just lightly brush the back of the fondant strips with water like I normally would to attach them to buttercream?
Thanks!
You always want to use white behind edible images, Any other color will bleed through and ruin your picture. Trust me, I learned this one the hard way. 
I'm not sure about the water on the fondant with the edible image. Hopefully someone else has had experience with this, and can help you more. Sounds like a really cool cake. I can't wait to see it!
Hi Susie! Definitely use a white background! Any other color will likely show through.
For the fondant strips, I would attach with a little BC.
Thanks, you two, that was exactly what I needed to know!
Now, if CakeCentral will start acting right and send me notifications of postings, I'd be a totally happy camper. Everything on my end is as it should be, but I haven't received a notification for a post in a couple of days. Maybe I'll log off and and log back in to CC and see if that helps.
Thanks, I'm so happy I asked about this.
And, I logged out, deleted my cookies and logged back in to CakeCentral, and my notifications are back. Yippee!
I find that if i'm the original poster, I don't get notifications. If i post to an existing thread and someone posts after me, I get notifications. Strange.
I found that if the background of you EI is very dark and you use almost the same color icing under it its fine . I posted a st patricks day cake where I did that and it never showed through at all . Even after min of 24 hrs ! Just a thought !
Thanks for the info and reference to the photos. That's very helpful and I appreciate it.
I put an EI on a cake that had pastel pink & purple squares. The EI had a white background and you could see through it - I think it's now on p.2 of my gallery. I was not happy. 
Edited to say: sorry, it's on the bottom pf p. 1.
Thanks, Renee, for showing me that. The cake was still cute, but you can see through the edible image. It's going to be white buttercream all the way for me and I hope it doesn't make the dark parts of the photos too light.
You're very welcome! Don't worry - the white BC won't lighten the dark color on the EI. It will look the same as it looks when you print it out. 
Thanks! I'm so excited to do this cake. I hope the images are as sharp as I want them to be.
I put an EI on a cake that had pastel pink & purple squares. The EI had a white background and you could see through it - I think it's now on p.2 of my gallery. I was not happy.
Edited to say: sorry, it's on the bottom pf p. 1.
This is exactly what happened to me... I put an edible image of a white dog on pink icing, per my niece's wishes, and she ended up with a picture of a pink dog. Lesson learned for me
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