Okay so I'm doing a little baby dress cake for a 1st birthday and I'm matching it to the invitation - which has lace around the bottom of the dress and sleeves. I'd love to do lace - but I don't have a fondant mold..... any creative ideas for doing lace? I thought about doing it out of royal icing - but I only have until Saturday to let it dry (if I do it tonight) and I'm not sure if that's enough time..... also I don't have a pattern to trace or follow.... anyone have any good ideas?
Also, I'm going to try to do "ribbon insertion" w/ just buttercream - I guess just pipe a line of icing, leave a space, pipe a line - but does anyone have any other ideas? The cake has to be just buttercream b/c I'm not really getting enough to go through the trouble of fondant.
Thanks!!!
If you have a piece of lace, you could place it on each part of the cake and use spray mist color in a can to get the look of lace. Check this link from diynetwork on "decorate a cake with lace" web video clip. Hope this helps. Yes, pipe a line then leave a space for your ribbon insertion.
http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/lc_desserts/article/0,2041,DIY_14000_2274095,00.html
Sweetbaker
Thank you that was a great video.
Yes, just let the buttercream dry first.
Other alternative is to pipe a lacy design directly to the cake using buttercream or royal icing. Royal icing doesn't take long to dry if its a piped design of lines (not a fill in design)...so it should definitely dry overnight if you wanted to go that route.
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