??? Is It Buttercream Or Fondant??

Decorating By majormichel Updated 17 Mar 2013 , 6:12pm by cakeyouverymuch

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majormichel Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:09am
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A potential customer wants this cake. Is it iced in buttercream or fondant? I am assuming it iced in fondant with fondant tweets/small sticks. I could be wrong. Your thoughts? Can this be done in all buttercream?

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denetteb Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:21am
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Not sure how the pic was made but looks like you could do a pretty similar look with buttercream, maybe rounding the top edge of the cakes to round them, then doing the random squiggles with a round tip.

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lynne7583 Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:25am
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Could be both. I would say iced in buttercream with fondant lines. Or buttercream and buttercream piping. 

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savannahquinn Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 1:26pm
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Looks like fondant bc of the rounded tops, with RI piping?

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meriem Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 2:54pm
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ALooks like fondant to me..

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Godot Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:11pm
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 RF with piping.

 

Reminds me of some sci-fi horror film.

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meriem Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:32pm
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AWhat's rf?

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Godot Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 3:47pm
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Rolled fondant

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meriem Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 4:24pm
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AOh ok thanks :) so normal fondant... That's what I thought

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cakeyouverymuch Posted 17 Mar 2013 , 6:12pm
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The rounded shoulders of each tier suggest fondant, though it could be done in buttercream, but the raised lines can be either.  A piped line would be easier, and the breaks in the line suggest piping.  Fondant lines would require at least three hands, two to use the extruder and apply the lines to the cake and one to turn the cake on a turntable.

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