I need to make this cake in two weeks. How do I make those tiny twirly thingies that are bunched up with the cherries? I don't have a great picture...but it sort of looks like sugared orange peel...or maybe some sort of candy? Has anyone done these?
Could you do them out of royal icing by piping some squiggles on wax paper and letting them dry? I wouldn't have any idea other than that.
pipe royal icing around a straw and let dry perhaps? stick the straws (dowels, etc...) in foam or something so they stand while drying
The grapevine are made from pulled sugar - boiled to carmel stage. If you don't know how to make pulled sugar, you could easily use white floral wire (wrapped, of course, in white floral tape so the wire doesn't come in contact with the cake). The just dust them with cocoa colored petal dust. The clusters on the cake are also grapes, not cherries - it's Martha Stewart's Grapevine Cake - they're dipped in the carmelized sugar as well. The leaves are white chocolate made from painting grape leaves on the back sides, then their dusted with cocoa powder.
Hope this helps!
If you need to wrap something around a straw, first slit the straw lengthways. Then when your chosen medium dries, you are able to squeeze the straw to make it smaller in order to remove it.
I would do what TraciJ said and wrap gumpaste or fondant around a straw or dowel or even a pencil. Sometimes it helps to grease whatever you are wrapping. Usually I let the tendrils dry for a while and then I carefully remove them and let dry more thoroughly off the straw or dowel so the inside has a chance to dry too.
Another cute way to do something rsembling tendrils is to curl a wire, brush it with piping gel and dip into mini non-pareils. Not quite the look here, but it might be close enough and it's easy. Another idea from Earlene--who calls them squirreleys.
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