How To Make Fondant 'dots' Stay On Sides Of Cake
Decorating By Rose-Lynn Updated 30 Jul 2008 , 1:07pm by aswartzw
I have a customer who requested âdotsâ on her wedding cake. I first took it to mean she wanted fondant polka dots, but then she said she didnât want them flat. So, then I took it to mean she wanted fondant pearls. When I told her the process for making the fondant pearls and that they were like little hard candies, they are not what she wants either. I am really at a loss other than to assume she wants large (nickel size) fondant balls randomly placed on the 3-tier square cakes. So, my question is how to I make the large âdotsâ stay in place on the sides of the fondant covered cakes? And do I need to make these up in advance in order to let them dry some or should they be soft? Thanks in advance for everyoneâs help! 
Hmmm.... tell her to find you a picture.
Maybe she wants the BC piped dots all over the cake (i think they're called swiss dots????).
Maybe something like this?
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/4-tier-swiss-dot-wedding-cake-2008-07-13.htm
I'd ask for a photo/example of what she means. She's saying 'dots', but she's decribing something different.
Maybe she's the one confused. Like she saw a photo of a cake with dots not realizing that they were 'pearls'.
I wouldn't 'assume' what she wants. Its best to make sure.
Hmmm.... tell her to find you a picture.
Maybe she wants the BC piped dots all over the cake (i think they're called swiss dots????).
Maybe something like this?
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/4-tier-swiss-dot-wedding-cake-2008-07-13.htm
I think your probably right.
She did provide me with a photo, but of course it doesn't include 'the dots' she wants. She told me rather than the swirls she wanted the 'dots'.
Since she said 'rather than the swirls, make it dots', I would think she just wants you to make the dots out of the same thing the swirls are made out of, which is buttercream.
Answer = Buttercream
On fondant it is probably royal icing rather than buttercream.
Rather than balls, what about half-balls. They will have a flat surface making sticking easier. You can make them by using a circle cutter and placing some plastic wrap over your thickly rolled fondant before you cut it. The plastic wrap will form the fondant into a dome shape.
On fondant it is probably royal icing rather than buttercream.
Rather than balls, what about half-balls. They will have a flat surface making sticking easier. You can make them by using a circle cutter and placing some plastic wrap over your thickly rolled fondant before you cut it. The plastic wrap will form the fondant into a dome shape.
That's what I was thinking........Margaret Braun has a cake with those half-circles brushed with lustre dust on one of her cakes. I think she used water or "glue" to hold them on but she was attaching fondant to fondant.
Totally cute cake, btw. (Wish she was able to give you a more clear picture of what she wants though.) 
On fondant it is probably royal icing rather than buttercream.
Rather than balls, what about half-balls. They will have a flat surface making sticking easier. You can make them by using a circle cutter and placing some plastic wrap over your thickly rolled fondant before you cut it. The plastic wrap will form the fondant into a dome shape.
That's what I was thinking........Margaret Braun has a cake with those half-circles brushed with lustre dust on one of her cakes. I think she used water or "glue" to hold them on but she was attaching fondant to fondant.
Totally cute cake, btw. (Wish she was able to give you a more clear picture of what she wants though.)
if she does want fondant deocrations and you ned to attach to a fondant covered cake you can use 'gum glue". It can be made with 1/4 tsp of gumpaste torn into small pieces and diluted into 1 tblsp of water and kept in container with a tight fitting lid.
Since your not sure what type of dots she wants, maybe you should send her some pictures of cakes with the swiss dots, pearls, and fondant dots..maybe she will see what it is she wants and you will know exactly what it is she is picturing in her head...
I still say she wants BC dots just piped on. Just squish the tips with your finger covered in powdered sugar and you'll be fine. Super easy.
Personally, I would not use RI. It dries hard and doesn't work any better than BC. BC is all I use with fondant.
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