If you can't attach a photo, could you at least copy/paste a link. There really is no way to advise you if we don't have any idea of what you are asking.
ok - here's a link to it. I hope it takes... It's the second photo from top in little picture boxes.
http://www.swedishbakery.com/site/epage/27888_222.htm
I am just guessing but I think it is just like a # 8, 9 or 10 tip and piping butter cream on the side of the cake. I don't think it is fondant since it is in the buttercream cakes section. If i was doing this I would start out on a styrofoam cake round with different size tips to see what works the best.
I agree with Rising Bakery that it is just different sized small round tips piped over and over around the cake.
To me it looks like a flat thin ribbon of fondant done with a clay extruder.
I'm with carmijok on this one. I down loaded the photo and blew it up to look at it. It looks like fondant which has been pressed through a clay extruder, and then wrapped around the cake in several layers.
I think if it was butter cream, there would be more breaks in the pattern.
I emailed them to ask and got this reply:
Thank you for your inquiry. According to our head decorator the branch
texture from the cake you are talking about is achieved by piping in butter
cream with a number 2 or 3 tip.
Regards,
Dennis Stanton
Swedish Bakery, Inc.
5348 N Clark St
Chicago IL 60640
1.773.561.8919
www.swedishbakery.com
[email protected]
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