Hi All,

So, my best friend of 20 years is getting married!! She has given me free reign on the design of her wedding cake....however a few months ago we were looking at pictures on line for her soon-to-be SIL and she found this picture and absolutely loved it. I kept a copy of it for some reason (intuition maybe ).

I am guessing that the bands of colour are overlaid with spun sugar. What do you all think? If it is, does anyone have any tips on how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

To me it looks more like there are two ribbons there...the brown satin one and then the one with thin silver threads.

Yes..I agree..It is either a double ribbon with the wider one being the spun threads or over lapped like Texas Rose suggested!!

Could be....like a sheer ribbon with just the threads running through it. I didn't even think of that...but definitely would be alot easier!! Thanks ladies!

Could be....like a sheer ribbon with just the threads running through it. I didn't even think of that...but definitely would be alot easier!! Thanks ladies!

One thing if you do make it...see how there's yellow centers and brown centers on the gerbera daisies on it? It would look more together if all the gerbera daisy centers were the same color.

(yes, I'm weird about little details like that )

What if you made chocolate bands (wraps?) for the tiers with one of those acetate sheets where the design is on them & comes off on the chocolate?
I know it's not an exact replication, but it'll give you a similar appearance.

I think it is 2 separate bands...but both being sugar though....the brown looking band would be pulled sugar ribbon and the thread looking band being spun sugar...both are moderately easy to achieve...I would say anyone who can follow directions can achieve success with this in a couple of tries.

Here is a starting point...

http://www.cake-decorating.us/spun-and-pulled-sugar.html

the threaded band can be made as a sheet then cut with a sharp, greased on the blade knife using a greased ruler as a guide...a warming lamp will help keep in pliable until it's attached.

it looks to me like they took brown ribbon and spun sugar slightly over the edges and cut it to get it even to get that effect.