What To Use For Sticking Fondant On Styrofoam Dummies
Decorating By ccc1234 Updated 21 Nov 2009 , 12:23am by Rylan
Hi everyone, I was told to use Karo syrup to make the fondant stick to the styrofoam. Is this correct??? Ive never done one b4 and would like your comments on this. I just got my shipment from DALLAS FOAM and cnt wait. Thank you everyone for recommending Dallas Foam my dummies look great!!!!!
I usually forget to use anything.
Last time I did remember to use water, the water collected around the bottom edge after I had it covered. It was the pourous type of foam not the smoothy smooth stuff so the water tunneled in...and out. 
Water will work but use it carefully/sparingly.
I don't know--not that fondant isn't sweet all on it's own but Karo syrup sounds like it'd get the army ants summoned & marching through my house.
I just did mine with a little water and it worked great.
I used just a bit of piping gel, just around the bottom.
I use piping gel thinned down with water, which is also what I use for doing the stretched fabric effect on cake boards with fondant. You have some time to maneuver the fondant around before it sticks hard. It seems to me that corn syrup would be a little on the runny side...but I've never tried it personally.
I massage the dummy with crisco and I love the results.
The crisco fills in a lot of the irregularities in the styro and if you have to remove the fondant for any reason, it's not sticky. You get no pooling of water at the bottom and no melting that can occur if you get too much water under a thin spot of fondant.
Rae
I use piping gel thinned down with water, which is also what I use for doing the stretched fabric effect on cake boards with fondant. You have some time to maneuver the fondant around before it sticks hard. It seems to me that corn syrup would be a little on the runny side...but I've never tried it personally.
What is this "stretched fabric" effect and do you have pictures of it? Thanks!
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