Hi guys I was just reading throught the long bridal show thread and had been nervous about messing up my buttercream dummies during the setup at a bridal show (my first) I just read that someone planned to use royal icing. Can you? Is it better? I will be taking more than a few dummies and I'm just nervous I guess

Yes you can use royal icing on a dummy.

If you do the buttercream early enough, it will harden up and not damage as easily as you think.

Thank you for the response. I just know that something horrible will happen to one of them lol.

I have messed with buttercream dummies in places that I worked and it is just as hard as royal after a few months. A benefit of buttercream is that you can smooth it. Royal can look quite bad if you can't get it smoothed, and you cannot use a viva with it.

To clarify, I am talking about American buttercream, with water, powdered sugar and grease. No dairy or flavoring.

Thank you. I was worried about smoothing the royal icing. I use American Buttercream but I have never used it more than a day or two ahead so it's never really HARD just slightly crusted. Any idea if this kind of buttercream would be hard enough in a week to withstand minor bumps.