How do you attach fondant , or whatever, to a cake dummy?
I have to make 36 small cube shaped cakes for a display, and will have styrofoam cubes to work with. Does it need to be coated with something? I have a vague memory of someone mentioning royal icing, then buttercream, then fondant???
I rub the dummy with crisco and then apply the fondant. The crisco fills in some of the imperfections in the styro and allows repositioning of the fondant, if necessary.
Rae
All of the advice you've been given above is accurate.
You can use vegetable shortening (crisco), water, thinned piping gel, or corn syrup to adhere the fondant to the styrofoam dummy.
There is no need to use anything else.
Rae
As an aside, be sure that you shave and sand the top edges of your styrofoam. If you don't you may have problems with your fondant tearing. If you need a little more guidance with this, there are a couple good tutorials posted on youtube. Good luck!
I successfully covered my first cake dummy today with fondant. I got them from Brian Loucks,The Foam Studio, bkloucks on Ebay. They came so fast!!
He also told me to just put a bit of water and to soften the corners--which I of course had not yet done, so the fondant tore on the first try. Then I draped it on a little thicker, pinched the corner folds and cut straight down each corner, pinching and gently rubbing to smooth out the seam. It worked fine. I made lids the same way to cover the bottom (now the tops) and added pale blue fondant ribbon and bow.
Considering the time it took me, though, I'm doubting now that I'll have time to finish the remaining small boxes in time for the cake competition I wanted to go to. A typical newbie, I over reached a little with my plans, but there's always next year. I'm going to try to finish my one original cake plan, then if I have time, I'll do this one for a display at the bakery.
Thanks for all the great help!
We really need much drying time as I see .... as I said I have been asked to fix 30 Round Cakes (22 cm perimeter and 14 cm height). They want to have white fondant coating and colored polka dots). Should be ready in April. I have two questions: When should I start and how much to charge each one?
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