Help! Book Cake Without Using Fondant
Decorating By marniek Updated 5 Sep 2009 , 8:37pm by StefanieLRyan
You might just have to tell her that it has to be fondant...or frost a board and use that for the book cover. Personally, I'd opt for telling her it had to be fondant and that she could just peel it off before serving if she didn't like it.
Tell her it's a paperback and don't bother.
Here's a really cute example of one:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1403055
Maybe you could use an icing comb.
I think you can get buttercream very smooth, however not as smooth as fondant...
Fwiw, Im not a lover of fondant so am making a fondant cake with buttercream underneath, have you suggested this? Or is it just the fondant as a overall thing they dont want
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I made a book for my mother's book club...and not only did I not use fondant, but unfortunately, it was carrot cake so I had to use cream cheese frosting, which made it even more difficult to get smooth and define edges.
I put the book cover frosting on quite thick (but not so thick it didn't keep it's form) and then to make the pages, I used a serated tip and filled in the empty space. The book cover frosting protuded just enough so that when I used the serated tip to make the "page" effect (which I did thin and held the tip very close to the cake), it actually looked 3-D.
I know it sounds confusing, but I hope it helps! Good luck!
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