Any Thoughts On This Camo Cake Technique?
Decorating By jenng1482 Updated 27 Apr 2010 , 2:41pm by dalis4joe
A bride Sent me this pic (I dont know where she got it). She wants to know if I can match the colors to be that bright. I am looking for your suggestions on how to do this.
I work mostly with buttercream and use fondant for accents. I have til Jan 2011 though to practice with fondant if we decide to go that route.
Also, I have an airbrush.
Any thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
I had that same cake request. It appears to be a really good air brush job mixed with some fondant details. My attempt was so rough that I vowed never to do another camo cake in my life. (It's in my cake pics although she requested a much smaller scale.)...no problem for me since I hate anything camo related anyway. =D
I don't own an airbrush, so I mixed different fondant colors together then used petal dust to kinda mesh the colors all together. I stamped some leaf designs in all the fondant, but isn't very visible in the pics.
Oh yeah, the pic at the wedding reception was taken a month after cake was made...wedding was cancelled day of, so groom's mom froze the cake!! I made the wedding cake as well and ended up making the 2nd wedding cake as well. I was very nervous about them serving the frozen cake sine I wasn't sure how they had sealed it up in the freezer. I wasn't at wedding to taste, but heard it was fine. *big sigh*
I found a bigger image for you:
http://www.sugarnspicebakery.com/images/Camo12.jpg
I have had a request for that cake too..... I tried the camo, but my attempt wasn't very good either. So I'm not much help there. My only question is.....why in the world did they put a Buck (which is male) and a spike (which is also male) on the top of that cake?!? My husband being a huge hunter... I got a chuckle out of the Buck & Spike cake...lol...instead of Buck and Doe!
I have had a request for that cake too..... I tried the camo, but my attempt wasn't very good either. So I'm not much help there. My only question is.....why in the world did they put a Buck (which is male) and a spike (which is also male) on the top of that cake?!? My husband being a huge hunter... I got a chuckle out of the Buck & Spike cake...lol...instead of Buck and Doe!
he-he 
It looks like the same way you would do the marbling or tye-dye technique. Take all your colors together and a series of "twist and folds" till you are happy with the mix, then roll out. Don't over mix it, about 5 or 6 times should do it. Put it on the cake and use a dog leg or similar tool and use it to make the texture over it.
Regarding the antlers on the female, in some species of deer, such as the reindeer, females also have antlers.
Yeah, but those are Whitetail... you can bet that some bride ordered that cake because she and her husband are hunters.
that's airbrush "A LA B. WEBER MODE" lol she is amazing at airbrush and I only wish I could use it half as good as she does.... anyways.... you can go to yutube and look for airbrush tutorials... even if they aren't for cakes... u just want to get the technique right... they have tons of them and I know with practice...u too can make a cake look that great...
Good Luck and good job on doing your homeowrk nice and early...
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