I will be doing my first wedding cake this year. The bride-to-be wants it ivory in colour. I'm doing ruffles around each tier in gumpaste and I'm wondering what the best method would be to colour it ivory?

I have heard of  tiniting the white gumpaste, in ivory edible dust, which I think sounds like a good as I'm not too keen on kneading the gumpaste too much, however if that's a better method I can do that. Is it possible to buy gumpaste already in the ivory colour?

 

Many thanks 

Is there a reason you have decided to use gumpaste instead of fondant?

I thought gumpaste would be better as I'll be rolling it out very thin? Or maybe, would you suggest tylose powder mixed with ivory fondant?

You really don't need to add anything to your fondant, on all my ruffle cakes, I just use straight fondant. If you use a soft fondant, after you ruffle the edges with your ball tool, just let it set a few minutes before applying the strips to your fondant covered cake. Color as you usually would! :)

Thank you, I hadn't thought of this. So would you advise on not even mixing tylose power with regular fondant, surely it would be quite tricky to wrap the ruffle strip around the cake?

Just for myself, I'd probably use a mix of modelling chocolate and fondant or even just modelling chocolate Check out wickedgoodies on this site).  If using straight fondant leaving it a few minutes to firm up before applying (as sixinarow suggested) would probably take care of any issues with manipulating the ruffle to wrap around the cake.

@ sixinarow,

 

I especially love the cake on the bottom left.  Are the beaded tiers a mold?

AThose are not food-safe!

sixinarow wow, they're really inspirational! I hope that mine is going to look like the one on the bottom right. Which fondant did you use? I'm in the uk so only limited choice! Have been using satin ice in the gumpaste but wilton in fondant which I didn't like working with, may try using satin ice in the fondant though. Also did you start from the top down?

I'm also in the UK, and you can get pre-coloured ivory fondant from Hobbycraft, or colour white fondant yourself.  Hobbycraft stock Renshaw's, which is fine.  I've also used Squire's Kitchen that I bought from my local cake shop and it was really lovely to work with.  I think you can buy their's online too.

 

I used Renshaw's white for this cake:

 

 

I had no problems with it at all.  I rolled out six strips at a time, and by the time I'd finished ruffling the last one, the first one was set enough to apply without difficulty.  I also used their ivory fondant coloured for this cake:

 

My first wedding cake was also ivory ruffles. I made white chocolate MMF, you already have that "ivory" color when using white choc. I then added just a bit of ivory color to it.  I used just straight fondant for the ruffles after covering the cake in the fondant.

Sorry that pic is so big, I did a copy and paste and wow..it's huge!

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I usually make my own using a variation of MFF but any fondant will work. As othersI have mentioned, cut and ruffle several at a time. But if it's stiff fondant like the wilton, apply the strips right after you ruffle it so it doesn't crack when you apply. Work from top to bottom, it's easy to break the ruffles after they're dry when you move it to stack so be gentle. I love ruffles- have fun!

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You can choose small, medium or large image when you upload to a post. But it's automatically set to large. :)

It was definately set to LARGE lol thanks!

Actually, the large photo is helpful in that it offers a close up of how it is done.  Thank you.

If you click on the pictures, it blows them up larger so you can see details also. :)