What In The Heck Are These Things??
Decorating By Confectioners_Conundrum Updated 8 Feb 2009 , 1:49am by Cakepro
I am going to make a cake for a lady and she sent me an email of the cake she would like to have. The only problem is I can't figure out what in the heck these little dots are made of. They don't look like edible pearls to me...I don't know what they are! Any idea?
They look like piped dots..kind of like this one..
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Seems that the finish of the cake is a light ivory, and the dots are made in white. They can be done in RI or buttercream and then use pearl dust diluted in vodka to give them a shine.
Edna 
to me it appears to be piping gel, as you can see it better from the side where it picks up light, and the dots straight on seem to be less visible. The piping gell also picks up the color of the icing behind it.
I disagree with the piping gel. They are RI or BC. Maybe with Super Pearl.
It definitely looks like piping gel to me.
If you use White Stokes piping gel then you can put the super pear dust on it to make it shimmer. Its the only piping gel that I know of that can pipe like RI. But from the picture and my experience, its RI. When I do it, I use a very small tip like a 0 or 1. Then if you have any type of peak on it, you use a small brush that is dampened with water to smooth it down.
If you use White Stokes piping gel then you can put the super pear dust on it to make it shimmer. Its the only piping gel that I know of that can pipe like RI.
Isn't that such a gorgeous technique?
In a class I took with Bronwen Weber, she showed us how agar piping gel really does pipe just like buttercream, and then she blew super pearl on it for a milk-glass effect. It was so beautiful!!
White Stokes piping gel is agar piping gel. 
Edible diamonds?
http://www.fancyflours.com/site/xdpy/s/Cake%20Jewels/index.html
They are "swiss dots". Done by making a triangle of three small dots in a staggered pattern. Simple elegant.
I found the pic on aboutthecake.com (see watermark?) and it says it's disco dots (not sure myself what those are lol) - gonna try to attach the link.
http://www.aboutthecake.com/weddingcakespage2.htm
It's near the middle of the page...I think the 22nd cake down.
The dots were piping gel mixed with white holographic disco dust then piped on with a #2. Can't go smaller than that because the dust won't go through a #1.
mystery solved! 
well i dont know what swiss dots are.. but they look like French dots to me.. in BC.
french dots that i know of anyway are 3 dots that look like a triangle.
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