I am making a two tiered stacked cake with ribbon around the bottom. The cake will be white buttercream with the ribbon trim being dark blue. The party colors are blue, white and silver, so I wanted to add small silver dots all over the rest of the cake. My question is, I'd like the dots to have somewhat of a symmetrical look, but how do I do that? Is there a way to measure out and mark the cake with where the dots will go without ruining the surrounding icing?
Thanks!!
You can also purchase an impression mat that will mark where your dots will go.
sugarshacks site has a mat I ordered one over the weekend.
I am doing the same type of cake this weekend! I saw a video on youtube where they just started at the very bottom, and pipe all the way around in a single line (just above your ribbon). Then they came in, about 1" above that line and put a dot in between the dots on the bottom line....
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like that, does that make any sense? I wish I could find the video!
I am doing the same type of cake this weekend! I saw a video on youtube where they just started at the very bottom, and pipe all the way around in a single line (just above your ribbon). Then they came in, about 1" above that line and put a dot in between the dots on the bottom line....
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like that, does that make any sense? I wish I could find the video!
I saw that one too. Basically you just start at 12,3,6,9 o'clock. Then fill in half way between each dot and so on until you have the number you want in the first line. Then just go up an inch and put a dot centered between each of the dots below it. This method would work with any size cake and you could vary the number of dots used according to how you want it to look. HTH and hope it makes sense. 
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