Hi

I'm in the middle of making a cake and now need to put some brown sugar on the cake board to reflect sand and some crabs made from sugarpaste. I've covered the cake board with fondant/sugarpaste. How do I get the sugar & crabs to stick to the board? I would appreciate some help. The cake is being collected tomorrow.

How about piping gel?

Ok thank you very much. I'll do that.

You are very welcome!

I use a mixture of graham crackers, Vanilla wafers and brown sugar for sand. Brown sugar alone sometimes melts.

Thanks for the ideas. Will the "sand" stay on the board if I stick it with piping gel? I'd hate it if it all slid off whilst she drives home with the cake.

I'd use ri, chocolate or bc for the crabs. The sugar that's stuck to the board won't move, but if it's piled up a bit it should be fine, if she drives like she is supposed to!
xx

I made sand with graham crackers and used the piping gel to adhere it...worked great.

i dont like the idea of getting a bunch of brown sugar with my bite of cake---i've used plain old nilla wafers and they really look like sand when processed very fine. (spongebob & tikki cake in my pics). oh, and they taste great too. the kids were fighting over the sand...really?

I agree kcassano, I didn't like the idea of just eating plain brown sugar either..grahams or vanilla wafers taste much better and goes well with the flavor of most cakes.

Grahams and vanilla wafer crumbs...what a great idea! Thanks for the tip.

I used crushed pecan sandies cookies, delicious and looked just like sand

I use either graham crackers or nilla wafers. I usually set the crabs, seashells first with a dot of buttercream, then come back with a spoon and lightly sprinkle the cookie crumbs over everything. If you try to attach crabs and seashells on top of the crumbs, they shift and move. *(ask me how I know this!)

Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I just thought I'd share since we are discussing nilla wafers. Our 2 year old dog is named "Nilla", for nilla wafers. We didn't give her the name, the rescue group who rescued her mom and 8 pups were all given names for sweet treats when they posted them on petfinder. We tried to change her name but nothing else seemed to fit her, so she is still our little Nilla.

ps. While she loves cake, we don't put her on the cake for sand at all.