I would like to make a Union Jack cake, but instead of doing it as a straight flag I would love to do it more like a quilt, something like this:
http://marmaladerose.blogspot.com/2009/07/mothers-union.html
Do any of you bright people out there have any idea of how I can achieve a gingham effect?
Paint stripes with thinned gel color in one direction, then paint stripes perpendicular to the first set. Where the stripes overlap, the color will be darker. I used this process (quickly and far from perfectly, should have thinned the color more) on "Rylee", but I think the idea behind it is sound and it's an easy theory to test/practice.
On the wings, you can see that my color is too 'thick' in both directions.
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1733235&sub=1733238
HTH
Thank you everyone for your helpful replies. I did not get reply notifications so I just saw this, thankfully it is still time!
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