I have entered an earlier request for help on this topic. I am doing a twin cake next week and I have the most adorable marzipan monkeys in sets that I will be using on top of the family cake...I was thinking of trying to work a mirror or something into this theme and have them looking at each other somehow. I cannot find a mirror small enough to STAND on the cake. Do you have any great suggestions? Thanks.
love idea..never made gelatin anything...not sure how I would do that, need to find a small mirror to stand as monkeys are two inches tall so a dental mirror would not work. Not sure I want to take a mirror to a glass cutting place and have them cut and glue it...the cakes are costing me enough and she has 2 1 year olds and 1 2 year old so trying to give her a break on the price. I appreciate your thoughts.
I am in Ohio and actually went to a craft store first...they have various sizes of mirrors that lay flat on a cake...I guess I could sit them around the mirror but wanted them to be kind of looking at each other on opposite sides...I will figure something out. thanks for your idea.
CandyLady - if you want to try the gelatine idea - the recipe and good description is here .
I would take piece of wire and make the mirror frame first from it. Then prepare the gelatin mixture - for you, two teaspoons of gelatin to five teaspoons water are more than enough. Lay the wire frame on a plastic mat (you need smooth surface, not the veining sheets people are using in the above mentioned thread) and pour (or brush) the gelatin mixture on it. Let it completely dry - overnight or even longer, depending of the height of the gelatin layer. It dries completely hard, smooth - like a plastic. Cut around the wire frame, which should now be encased in gelatin.
Another way is to make simply the gelatin sheet and glue it later on your frame - made from wire, RI, fondant - whatever you want.
Do more than you need and choose the best result.
Good luck!
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