How Do I Get A 2D Cake To Look 3D And Buttercream?
Decorating By catin Updated 25 Aug 2008 , 12:38am by TooMuchCake
I have a cake order for a 2D My little Pony Cake for next week and the person ordering the cake wanted to know if I can get the head looking like 3D .
I thought on adding more cake to the head part to make it pop out a little more . But how to I go about it ?
And also she wants two different colors of Buttercream on the pony ...the fading color affect ( as you see alot on the plastic pony play toys). How do I get that effect with the buttercream ? Do i just brush it on ?
Help please!!!
Julie
Sorry I can't help 
but I'm looking forward to the reply's from all our talented caker's on CC 
Yes, you can put on the two colors of buttercream and blend them together. I do it a lot. You can see in my photos where sometimes I do that, and sometimes I give it a faint airbrushing. The dragon is airbrushed, for example, and the Father Christmas and New Puppy are shaded with different shades of buttercream.
HTH,
Deanna
Thank you! Yes, I hot-brush my buttercream sculptures so that will work nicely to blend the colors.
Deanna
Thank you! Yes, I hot-brush my buttercream sculptures so that will work nicely to blend the colors.
Deanna
I've never heard of hot-brush, can you explain? I agree, your cakes are phenominal!
Thanks! Instead of using a hot spatula to smooth the icing (like some people do when they base-ice their cakes), use a soft brush heated the same way to smooth the icing. You can get into the contours better with the brush.
Deanna
Thanks for all that information TooMuchCake. The next time you do this technique, would you be able to take a couple of pictures, for a visual on it, for us?
Thanks again -
Theresa 
I have a video out where I made a dog cake similar to the one in my avatar, and a lion cake. I show how to cover them in buttercream. If you're interested, there is a link in my sig line. My alter-ego website (www.cakedalaska.com) has some in-progress photos on it, but none of them show me doing the hot brushing. They're of the cakes in stages. I'll have a monkey cake on there sometime this week, I hope.
Deanna
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