Pinstripes And Dots...need Help!!!
Decorating By colabear71 Updated 23 Mar 2009 , 5:16pm by colabear71
I have a couple cakes to do for next weekend and need some help.
I am doing on cake with vertical pinstripes (like on the cover of Mich Turner's Spectacular cakes) and the other is tiffany pearls..dots (inside Mich's book). The cakes will be buttercream (as requested) not fondant. In the book, they use royal icing on fondant.
My question is what would be best to do the stripes and dots with? Buttercream or royal icing? I really don't care for the taste of royal icing (i don't like the meringue powder taste). Is there anything else that you would recommend? Would Toba's glaze work on a cake?? I am pretty new to decorating and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Kim
Would you be able to do fondant accents on the cake? That way most of it will be buttercream. I would think it would be tricky to get perfect pinstripes using the buttercream. I wish I could see a pic of the cakes, then maybe I could be more help.
This is a pic of the cover of the book as well as a pic of another example of the pinstripe or candystripe design on a cake that is in the book.
Kim
This is a pic of the cover of the book. This is one of the designs I am attempting. I can't find a good pic of the other, but it is just dots spaced evenly around the whole cake.
Kim
Oopps..sorry about the double post and double pics on the first post. I'm still learning how to post pics in forums.
Kim
I did a cake similar to this in all bc. I rounded the top edges and piped in bc. I started at the top and pulled the icing to the base of the cake. It worked for me. I don't see why you would need to do anything but bc on a bc cake like this. I love the book and all the ideas. I have experimented with the pearl using crusting bc and let it crust over and brushing on luster dust/vodka paint to get them pearlized. Again, all in buttercream. HTH
Thanks jlynnw... I am going to do a test run tomorrow using buttercream.
Any other suggestions?? Anyone??
If you have some specific questions, you might want to pm buttercreamjean. Might be bcreamjean. She is the buttercream queen. She will probably have lots of information for you.
I am horrible w/buttercream so I can't offer much advice of my own. Would suggest trying to pre-mark lines. Piping that straight and even is really, really tough. At least for me!!!
Good luck!
One favorite brand is Makins, which you can get at your local Hobby Lobby, sometimes with a 40% off coupon.
That is...if you are allowed to do some fondant on the cake.
Thanks everyone for the tips. I will be sure to post pics when I'm finished.
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