I am making a chocolate buttercream 8" frosted 2 layer cake and need to have it look like camo. I have seen countless ones on CC and I love so many that are some and just look perfect. I know how to get it smooth with the viva papertowel but how do I get the colors on so they are not blended into each other. Any suggestions or techneique? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Toni

I'm working on a camo sheet cake right now. I mixed black, beige, hunter green and brown in separate bowls and simply iced it in sections with different colors. You have to be careful but its not hard to do. The smoothing has to be done with a papertowel after its dry though. Dont try to get it smooth with your spatula. Let it crust and then viva papertowel it. I did the sides of the cake in the camo colors then iced the top in hunter green andput a hunter green border around the bottom. I'm working on an orange sportsmans fleurdilis right now to put on the top.

Thank you Patti for the help I think one other person told me that as well. One more question would I crumb coat the top before adding all my colors? I plan on doing it on the top since I am leaving the sides just chocolate. It is a birthday cake for someone that was in the army and I dont have time to get an Army transfer ontop so it would look plain. I will do only a boarder on the bottom I think of one of the greens in my camo and his name on top. Would love to see yours when you are done.

the camo cake in my photos was done by mixing the different colors then I piped it on individually and then I used the Melvira roller method to smooth. it is one of the easiest cakes I had to do..LOL I did not crumbcoat the cake, but you can if you want.

I also have to do a camo cake, but will be using fondant.....anyone have suggestions on making fondant look camo?

I also have to do a camo cake, but will be using fondant.....anyone have suggestions on making fondant look camo?

Last question I think what tip should I be using to pipe the different colors?

I did a camo cake and used a whole bunch of #6 round tips.

I posted pictures on my blog showing how I did my camo cake....

http://savingdougssanity.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-i-made-camouflage-cake-inside-and.html

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Tracy71, Sugarshack has a tutorial on doing a fondant camo hat, hope it helps.

http://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/fondant-camo-hat.html

Hi - I posted my pic of the camo cake I did this morning. Yes, crumbcoat first and then add your icing. Have fun with it! I did the sides of my cake first, being careful to not go over the top. Then i did the top - you just have to be careful on the edges.

Fondant is easy too - just make ropes of the different colors and put them together - make a big log of it and roll it out. Its actually much easier to make camo in fondant but my customer wanted buttercream.

Here is one I did recently:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1858829

I used the different colors in piping bags with #10 tip, gently smoothed the ridges out of the icing with a spatula (being careful not to mix the icings) then smoothed with a viva. Worked perfectly. The flag is an edible image placed on white chocolate clay (I dampened the surface of the chocolate clay before putting the image on it)

This cake was for a young man getting ready to leave for Afghanistan, and he cried when he saw the cake. One of the most touching cakes I have ever made.
God bless our military, past and present.

Tracy71
I had a request for a hunting cake. They didn't want the traditional camo. They requested something more real, woodsy. So, I buttercreamed, added a thin layer of army green fondant and added fondant and chocolate leaves all over cake. I added some trees, limbs and deer. Not a good photo, but you get the idea.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1691436.html

I'm sorry, did I not give you enough instructions on my PM.

okay, just wondering if I let something out. Good Luck!!