What is the best way to do Damask on a fondant cake. I have a wedding cake coming up and they want Damask design on each layer. I have never done this. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I use cutters. Nice clean edges.

I buy a craft stencil, (much cheaper than the cake stencil), put it on the area of the cake where you want the design and use RI with a palate knife to swipe across the stencil. HTH

I use the cricut. Much faster then cutting each one idividually and I can get the exact size I want. I know leah_s thinks it's a paper weight but I've had great success with it. If you use the right medium and proccess it correctly it works like a charm. The scroll border on my bumble bee cake was done with it if you'd like to take a look.

I also use a stencil and royal icing. Clean and nice! Although the cutout idea is great if you want to do it on buttercream!

It's actually pretty easy. I use the stencil and royal icing as well. Just make sure to secure the stencil on the cake so the icing won't seep through.

what cutters do you use leah?

Agree with the stencil and royal icing...very easy to do.

Love the stencil and RI, i put the cake in the fridge to harden up the frosting a little then when you do the stencil it doesn't mess up the frosting.

Also, if you have never done it before and are going the royal icing/stencil route...practice, practice, practice. Its not something I would try for the first time with someone's wedding cake!

Good Luck!

I agree with the majority....stencil with royal on fondant, although you could use buttercream. There is a black/white cake in my pics that is buttercream stencil on buttercream cake! In my experience it's MUCH easier to stencil onto fondant! Practice and you will find you can achieve a beautiful look relatively quickly with no need for a Cricut or cutters...although I'm a fan of both!

I have zillions of cutters. The Brandenburg Lace set is a good basic set, plus a leaf set. I've tried the stencil thing, and on a square cake, I can see it working. Oe a round cake, much more difficult. Also I generally don't like designs where I have to get it perfect the first time.

Jennifer Dontz ( www.sugardelites.com) has several sets of cutters that work well for a damask design.

Ok yall I have really been wanting to try a black and white cake with the demask stencil...what is the difference between BC and RI??? I have been cheating with my icing, I buy it from Sam's in the big 5 gallon bucket and depending on the stiffness I need I just add powdered sugar to it. This may seem like a silly question, but I really don't know the difference.

leah_s, YIKES! I just googled the Brandenburg lace set, $70. (here's the link:
http://www.globalsugarart.com/product.php?id=21266&name=Brandenburg%20Lace%20Cutter%20Set).

So, Leah, you don't stencil, you roll fondant really thin and use the cutters?? Am I understanding this correctly?

You would think as popular as this design is, someone would make a nice set of cutters.

i have yet to try damask with stencil, but will soon. i saw at a DOS that the demonstrator used stiff RI. what consistency do yall use?