Everytime I put a ribbon around a cake, it soaks up a lot of butter, and alters the color of the ribbon. Should I put wax paper around the cake before I put on the ribbon? Or maybe I should put scotch tape behind the ribbon? Anyone have this problem?
Thank you!!
Sandy
Another thing some people do is iron the ribbon. Take the ribbon, put wax paper over it and then a towel on top of that. Iron over the towel and continue down the length of your ribbon making sure you are using a new area on the wax paper as you go. This will seal the ribbon with the wax from the paper. I have yet to try it because by the time I get to the ribbons I am in a rush to just be done....
Why not ust use edible ribbon?
I wish I could! But the brides want satin..the sashes in color around the brides made dresses (and some brides!) have gotten real popular here and they want to match that color on the cake...
I'm a pammer.
and you can match fondant to the color and paint with to make it satin-y... but it will never be exactly the same.
That is true..and you can make roses from gum paste. But the brides just don't want this, at least not in my area. (and they don't want to pay for it!) I agree, if I could do every single cake what I want, I would use Fondant...but the question wasn't alternatives to using ribbon, it was how to apply ribbon.
Why does every single friggin post on here lately turn into a debate???
Hey, I wasn't debating, actually just publicly straddling the fence 
I also gave a suggestion about the real ribbon as the OP requested.
wait a sec... where the hell did the rest of my post go? You can see the whole thing in the quote above but not in my post above that... what I was SAYING was that fondant ribbon of any sort will never be the same exact look of satin ribbon THEREFORE sometimes that's what the bride wants so that's what you give her. I highly doubt any "moderator" could have found that offensive but apparently they did so THANKS for editing my totally benign post without any note about it. Geez.
Lorimoms, you are right, this place is getting ... let's just call it weird... lately.
Hey, I wasn't debating, actually just publicly straddling the fence
I also gave a suggestion about the real ribbon as the OP requested.
wait a sec... where the hell did the rest of my post go? You can see the whole thing in the quote above but not in my post above that... what I was SAYING was that fondant ribbon of any sort will never be the same exact look of satin ribbon THEREFORE sometimes that's what the bride wants so that's what you give her. I highly doubt any "moderator" could have found that offensive but apparently they did so THANKS for editing my totally benign post without any note about it. Geez.
Lorimoms, you are right, this place is getting ... let's just call it weird... lately.
That is REALLY wierd...I didnt edit your quote at all...I don't even know where the rest of that quote came from (did you orginally type that and then delete it?) Did a moderator edit it?? Very strange.
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