Can anyone please help please? I have searched to find out if there is an easy way to get the strips of fondant onto the cake instead of placing them on one by one. I am planning on using a clay extruder for the rainbow stripes. I can find the cake but no instructions or tutorials. Any ideas? Here is a picture. I hope you can see it. Thanks in advance!
That's a great cake. I made it last weekend for my work. It was way too tall, but everyone sure loved it, and, it made them poop colours.
I used a Play Doh toy to make the strips. It was tedious when I hadn't made enough and had to clean and change colours. It took ages putting them on one by one too. They broke or stretched when I tried wrapping them around. If I made it again, I'd put them onto a plastic mat then wrap it around the cake. That way they would be level and not dry out too much.
The grown men I work with turned into 5 year olds when they saw it!
AThanks punkin90. I'm struggling with a lot of the concepts of decorating, no matter how many tutorials I watch. The stripes are straight over buttercream. I didn't trim or level the cakes which probably didn't work in my favour to get level stripes, but it was fun to see it all come together. I used the white cake recipe from addapinch.com. Great texture and flavour .
I have purchased a few cake classes on Craftsy. I have some that I still need to watch 
I was hoping I could find a free tutorial on the internet. I understand that you grease wax paper and put down your fondant and flip it onto the cake. What I am trying to figure out is when you put the fondant onto the cake (images of horror come to my mind 
) How do you keep the fondant from sliding? That's when it gets scary! I guess you measure the cake first but what do you do if the edges do not meet together right? Does anyone know if you do this in 2 different sections?
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I have purchased a few cake classes on Craftsy. I have some that I still need to watch I was hoping I could find a free tutorial on the internet. I understand that you grease wax paper and put down your fondant and flip it onto the cake. What I am trying to figure out is when you put the fondant onto the cake (images of horror come to my mind ) How do you keep the fondant from sliding? That's when it gets scary! I guess you measure the cake first but what do you do if the edges do not meet together right? Does anyone know if you do this in 2 different sections?
I have tried this technique after following Jessica's method of using wax paper. In this link: http://jessicakesblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chevron-inspired-safari-themed-baby.html she shows how she used the wax paper transfer method. I used the method on this cake to place the 'waves' onto the bottom tier:
I did have some issues because the waves were overlapping, causing them to be quite heavy and they started to slip off the wax paper a bit. So perhaps the best thing would be for overlapping fondant would be to place them two at a time, rather than all four at once like I did. You shouldnt have a problem because the strips will be quite light and you could do a few rows at a time. You could test the technique with some fondant strips and attach it onto something- a cake dummy or whatever you have that's got a curve to mimic the shape of a cake. It needn't be big- just to get a 'feel' for the technique and also to see if doing it that way will squash the strips. A very light hand will be needed, but then you need to make sure the strips adhere to the fondant.
Good luck :)
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That's a great cake. I made it last weekend for my work. It was way too tall, but everyone sure loved it, and, it made them poop colours.
I used a Play Doh toy to make the strips. It was tedious when I hadn't made enough and had to clean and change colours. It took ages putting them on one by one too. They broke or stretched when I tried wrapping them around. If I made it again, I'd put them onto a plastic mat then wrap it around the cake. That way they would be level and not dry out too much.
The grown men I work with turned into 5 year olds when they saw it!
Fabulous cake Shazza65!!!
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