My First Attempt At Quilling On A Cake
Decorating By silverdragon997 Updated 2 Apr 2011 , 4:41pm by silverdragon997
I've become fascinated with paper quilling recently, and decided to try it out on a cake. It was a lot of fun, though it took quite a while. I think I'll have to try out some other designs. I found this one on a paper quilling site and decided to make it out of fondant.
What do you think?
http://cakecentral.com/gallery/1990312
Love it, great design!
I love 'quilling' on cakes, Colette Peters has a great one on her website: http://www.colettescakes.com/wedding_cc.html# (third row down, second from left)
That's what got me started...someone wants a cake in a similar style with the quilled flowers. I got to researching, became fascinated, and decided to give it a go! Funny though, I haven't been able to get my quilled flowers to come out as well as the fish did so far.
This is a great cake. I have to ask, did you trace the fish before you did the quilling, or just free hand?
I printed the picture of the paper quilled fish out on paper, covered the paper with cling wrap, and then placed the pieces in as I made them.
Wow, this has to be the first quilled artwork I've seen. Most people do flowers! What a great job! You look like you are off to a great start on cake quilling.
Try doing a search in the galleries for "quilled". There aren't a lot of quilled cakes in the galleries but a few really good ones come up.
I printed the picture of the paper quilled fish out on paper, covered the paper with cling wrap, and then placed the pieces in as I made them.
And then how did you attach it to the cake? I've never tried this!
I let it dry over night on the cling wrap, then used the cling wrap to help put it on. It's actually on backwards from the way it sat while I made it. I think it helped that the fondant on the dummy cake was still soft, but the fish was hard, so I was able to push it into the fondant a bit to help it stay. It's only attached with water.
I love this idea! I used to do quilling all the time when I was a kid and I still have quilled ornaments on my tree 30+ years later. Do you just use fondant or do you mix with gum paste?
I used good old Wilton fondant, always trustworthy to dry almost as hard as gumpaste anyway. It gave me more time to manipulate the pieces while I was making it. 
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