Buttercream Icing / Satin Ribbon
Decorating By creativeconfections Updated 16 Jun 2009 , 12:59am by creativeconfections
We are doing a square buttercream iced cake and they want a satin ribbon as the base border of the layers - what is the best method to attach? I was going to back the ribbon with parchment, overlap on one corner and use double sided tape. Any suggestions or some do's and don'ts? I know it would work better on fondant but they do not want fondant.
I made a white square cake and attached satin burgundy ribbon around it, I put shortening on the ribbon so it would not get grease spots, the color did not bleed as far as I know but it might depending on the ribbon so ppl find this method not food safe but it is what the bride wanted.
good luck
Much debate on this one. Some say use packing tape on back of ribbon or contact paper, some iron on waxed paper. I have to do this for a wedding cake in a couple of weeks, would like to know myself which is the best way. I will be using red ribbon so don't want that to bleed through.
This is black ribbon (lucky) - I ran a test - put some buttercream on a plate, let it crust and then placed a piece of ribbon on it - left it 24 hours - no fadding or bleeding at all
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