I made a cake for a fire cheif who was retiring and put a gumpaste figurine of him sitting on top of the cake holding a fire hose. To make the flames I used both fondant AND gumpaste. I used a petal cookie cutter (it looks like a tear drop with the pointed end kind of twisting to the side) - you can get these at your local craft store - they sell them in a set with a couple different sizes. Anyway - back to the flames. I made the gumpaste ones ahead of time and placed them in a flower formed to dry on a curved angle - then after making the cake and icing it with BC - I cut out some of the "flames" from red. orange, and yellow fondant and just stuck them to the side of the cake kind of randomly - I then stuck the gumpaste ones to the side and top of the cake too. It's in my pictures - look for the firetruck cake and in the background of that photo is the fire cake (the firehose attached to the fire truck). Hope this helps.
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