How To Make A Checkerboard Pattern With Fondant

Decorating By MrsStutler Updated 16 Feb 2011 , 2:52pm by sillywabbitz

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MrsStutler Posted 16 Feb 2011 , 4:59am
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I am hoping to make a twilight cake for my birthday next month, I drew my design but I am not sure about how to approach making it come to life. I am planning on doing a tri-level stacked cake and the middle cake is supposed to be checkerboard patterned. I have tried to do a "guilt" out of fondant before and it just didn't come out the way I wanted it to. Any tips, tricks or advice is greatly appreciated!

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sillywabbitz Posted 16 Feb 2011 , 5:07am
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I did a checkered pattern on my Cars cake. I just used thE square cutter from Wilton. It would have been better if I had the atteco cutters because there are more size options. I wrote up the details here
http://www.keeponcaking.com/2011/01/disneys-cars-cake/

The instructions for the squares are about midway down.

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bates123 Posted 16 Feb 2011 , 5:13am
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I did checkerboard on my Cars cake also. (You can click on my photos to see it.) I just covered the cake with white fondant then cut out black squares for it. It didn't meet up property on the cake, but I put the tower of tires to try to cover it up. hahaha!

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ToniRod Posted 16 Feb 2011 , 5:17am
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Sillywabbitz, great tutorial!!! Love it! icon_biggrin.gif

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sillywabbitz Posted 16 Feb 2011 , 2:52pm
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Bates123, I love your tower of tires. What a cute idea.

Toni4006, thanks so much.

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