Any Idea How This Is Done? Help Please!
Decorating By Lenette Updated 6 Jun 2008 , 1:02pm by tiptop57
Not sure here...but, I think that it's done with a sheet of fluorescent light cover. 
Believe it or not... Then the embroderie is put on top...
to get the silver between the knobs, couldn't you thin out the silver and go over the entire piece and then gently wipe of excess, just like you would for painting distressed furniture? the "paint" would stay in the cracks.
just a thought....
What about a really small tip to pipe between the indentations? Would that work? Or really small pearls?
I don't know, just thinking out loud....
At least I have an idea about the embossing now. Hopefully, if we put our heads together we'll come up with the rest.
Warning: I have no idea what I'm talking about. But...
How about drawing a grid pattern and tracing it with silver colored melted candy melts then piping balls in the squares after it sets. It would take FOREVER! And you would have to do it in pieces so I don't know what you would do with the corners.
Okay, I'm leaving now and giving this back to people who actually do know how to decorate...... 
I saw this cake the other day and I was dying to figure it out too! He's amazing!
It's still a novel idea...not something you would immediately think of for decorating any cake!
This is a totally beautiful cake, absolutely breathtaking! The bow alone so lush and lifelike.
I will watch to see if anyone has any conclusive info on how the decoration was done....I'm really curious now!
You guys are geniuses. I would have never in a million years thought of that!
It looks like the silver color matches the bow and the flowers. He would have had to have used the same luster dust and the only way I could figure he could get that result would be to individually paint in-between each one. It seems tedious, but cakes are nothing short of that.
paint the edge of the florescent cover with the silver BEFORE pressing it into the fondant..
press in while still wet
might that work?
(technique borrowed from art and theatre)
What a great idea Doug! 
That just might work.
Brillint.. florecent light cover... i would have never thought... has anyone ever thought of asking him how to do it... i have often asked other designers and most of them are pretty cool with sharing...
Hmm Doug, I thought of that too but I still think it would be too messy in final outcome which would be hard to clean up as pretty as this cake. I thought of reverse imprint also for the background but would be problematic also.
I really, really think because of the clean look that he went in there and individually handpainted it with a tiny watercolor brush and because of that I don't think you could do this on a regular cake, you would need to go with the English Fruit cake or a brandy soaked pound cake for the time factor needed, (I betting this picture is a dummy cake for that same reason and that it is a show piece also.)
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