Attaching Fondant To Wire ???
Decorating By TantalizingTreats Updated 7 Jul 2008 , 5:17pm by paojava
What is the best way to attach fondant to wire. I have tried to do it a couple of times and it never seems to stay... and then once they are attached.. how do i stick them into the cake without them falling over? The last cake I made was a pain in the a$$ because those silly things wouldn't stay, but I love the look of them.. Hope someone out there can give me a few pointers..
TIA
Charleen
I usually stick the wire into the fondant right away, then lay it down on a silicone mat to dry. I've never had problems with it falling off (...yet). To keep the wire from falling in the cake, use coffee stirrers. You put those in the cake first, then stick the wire in those.
Glad to hear these tips. I've had the same problems.
Wgoat (a CC member) shared a great trick for this. Heat the end of the wire in a candle flame (or a lighter) for a few seconds, then push it into the fondant. The heat will melt the sugar enough to glue the wire in.
Before that, I was dipping the wire into egg white or into meringue powder/water mix. That works too, but it's a little messier than the heat method.
Like Amia said, use coffee stirs, or if you're putting in a bunch of wires in one spot, tape them together with floral tape and then stick them into a drinking straw and push the straw into the cake.
Always wanted to try this, now I 'll know how not to mess it up- thanks all.
i use the paper covered flower wire and put the tip in gumpaste glue before slowly pushing into the fondant shape then leave to dry. then just before i pop them in the cake i moisten the bottom tip of the wire in more gumpaste glue and push into cake. I have never had troubl with them falling off this way, I used to when i just dampened the wire with water when i first started but never since using the gumpaste glue, or falling over. Hope this helped.
oh when i am putting modelling paste straight on bare wire for figurines i always brush the wire with gumpaste glue (diluted gumpaste with boiling water to make a sticky glue) and leave to dry sitting on polystyrene in correct position (propped up by cotton tips and wire until dry if necessary)
hope this helped! 
what gauge of wire do you all use?
I use 22 gauge...it has a nice "bounce." I insert wires into a floral peg...if they more too much I stuff the peg with a little sugar paste.
I did this on a daisy cake I made a month ago (see my pics). I cut out the fondant (needs to have some thickness to it), dipped my wire in tylos glue and pushed the wire into the flower - between two petals and up in to the center of the flower. Lay flat on parchment or wax paper and let dry over night. Because I had to transport my cake, I stuck them in one of those green floral styrofoam bricks and then inserted them in the cake at the event. Because I wanted my flowers as a bunch in the center of the cake, I used a flower pick (??), cut the cap off, filled it with gumpaste and then stuck the wired flowers in this. I then pushed it down in the middle of the cake and decorated around it.
I must say I like the idea of heating up the wire and then sticking in the flower, I will try that the next time as tylos glue can be messy and sticky - I had some of my flowers stick to the parchment paper and though they did come off, thought I was going to lose a few. BTW - always make extras flowers as some may break.
B2B
I DID IT!!!!!! Woo-Hoo!!!
You can (I think) see it here:
Erin's Birthday Cake
I ended up sandwiching the flowers together with slightly sticky fondant (I added water to it). I also added the leaves the same way. I am pretty happy with the overall outcome. This was my 3rd fondant cake ever, and the first one with homemade marshmallow fondant.
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