What's The Best Way To Get Sand To Stick To Cake Board?
Decorating By LoriMc Updated 13 Nov 2008 , 1:08am by Cakey1865
Piping gel or Karo syrup, yes. It will hold down a base layer of sand. If you are mounding the sand then it will still shift. If you want the appearance of mounded sand, then make the mounds of RF and, while it is still wet, sprinkle the "sand" over it.
HTH
Piping gel or Karo syrup, yes. It will hold down a base layer of sand. If you are mounding the sand then it will still shift. If you want the appearance of mounded sand, then make the mounds of RF and, while it is still wet, sprinkle the "sand" over it.
HTH
What is RF?
Also on that gumpaste "glue", can you add color to it?
Piping gel or Karo syrup, yes. It will hold down a base layer of sand. If you are mounding the sand then it will still shift. If you want the appearance of mounded sand, then make the mounds of RF and, while it is still wet, sprinkle the "sand" over it.
HTH
What is RF?
Also on that gumpaste "glue", can you add color to it?
I think maybe she meant RI (Royal Icing) and you can definitely color gum glue. Just put a put of color in and swish it around. Keep adding color until you have the right shade.
I usually just spread out some buttercream then put the crackers over that.
FYI - If you cover your cake boards with contact paper, corn syrup won't work. It puddles just like mercury. It's kind of cool to watch, but doesn't help the sand stick!
I like to brush on a mixture of piping gel and water and sprinkle the sand on that.
I recently did a grooms cake with the baseball hat on a base and crushed graham crackers around it! Karo syrup worked great for it!!! They did not budge even on the car ride!
I made 100 mini sand castle cakes with grahm crackers and I used my buttercream and piping gel. They both worked great!
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