I know a lot of decorators use dallasfoam website to order cake dummies. I get mine at the local cake shop. But I do use royal icing and real fondant to cover them. You can use patch n paint (light weight joint compound) also, but it has a little greyer tint.
As for cookies, I've just done regular sugar cookies, but with royal and fondant, the buttercream gets rancid.
I have a friend who just makes a regular cake and dries it out like a brick and covers that. I have also seen people use foam insulation and rice krispy treats as dummies.
I know a lot of decorators use website to order cake dummies.
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I use my regular bc. I dont' saran or wrap my dummies with anything. Just slap that icing right on there! Omit the flavoring obviously since you're not eating it anyway.
I use regular royal icing with fondant on top. I also sometimes use rice krispy treats and cover in fondant if it's a unique shape. I did the starbucks cake in my photos out of RK treats and just took it down the other day and pulled the fondant off and the RK's are not molded, I plan to reuse them (not to eat, for another display). I am a WMI so I use lots of cake displays. I mostly just hot glue styrofoam together and cover in royal icing.
The rats don't seem to bother it.......ICK!
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