I am hoping to get some help with this cake. My dd loves it & I hope I can do it for her birthday this Saturday. I just have a question about how the rainbow is piped on the cake. It looks so perfect! Do you think it is free hand? I just think I would need a while to pipe all of that. What tip do you think is used?
Thanks so much! I did try & message the maker of the cake but I need help ASAP!

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I am not sure if it would look the same, but what about doing the colors in fondant snakes?

They look like little fondant pieces to me, but I have no idea.

they look like skittles to me.

She said in her comments, that she made the rainbow out of mini marshmallows.

The clouds are mini marshmallows.

I think the rest looks like piped buttercream. I'd use a round tip. How big is just going to depend on how big of dots you want. I can see using a 3 up to an 8 on it myself.

I think she piped those on with a round tip. I dont' know how you would pipe those on freehand though and have everything be nice and even. I have a feeling if I did it, it wouldn't look that nice! Could you maybe draw the rainbow swirl pattern on the cake (with a layer of icing on it already) with a toothpick or something so you have a guide and then pipe on top of that?

you could get colored M&M's @ a candy store

At first glance, I thought the rainbow was skittles too. But the circles are not all uniform. I think it's buttercream - like she used the concept of covering the cake with a star tip only she used a round instead. Looks like a lot of work, but I'm sure your daughter will love it.

Look at some of the other cakes in her gallery...... i think they are dots piped with buttercream. HTH

They do looked piped. I did this once for a castle cake but all in white. After the buttercream had crusted, I took some Viva papertowel and mushed them in a little until they made contact with one another. This made them look more like stones on the castle wall.

Have fun! It will take a while . . .

Debbie

Thank you all so much! I plan to do a 6 or 8 inch round cake - not a 2 tier like the original.

Check out another example of this technique that was posted recently. She did the individual dots as described.

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1622327

I'd love to see the picture when you finish the cake!

the clouds look like minature marshmallow's partially melted, but still hold their shape