ACan anyone tell me how I can outline fondant lettering? I tried using a small length of fondant in a different color, but my letters are too small. I want to get this effect.

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I think the best way would be to paint the outline with silver highlighter dust. You would have to have a steady hand and a tiny paint brush. It's what I would do.

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Yep.

AI figured the painting thing would be the way, but not so sure about the steady hand thing. :)

AAre you cutting the letters out [@]Sue9069[/@]

I'm not sure if this will make sense and it may not be the easiest way, but I would print out the 2014 on a piece of card stock paper the size that I wanted, cut it out by hand, roll out my fondant, lay the numbers on the fondant and cut them out with an exact knife. Then print a smaller size 2014 to lay on top of the larger size fondant numbers (where its small enough for the outline) and then paint it.  That way you will have even lines. Does that make sense? lol

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Makes perfect sense to me. That's what I do for certain things, and will airbrush around those lines, or cut the card stock so what I'm painting is [B]inside[/B] the lines, etc etc.

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Makes sense to me! I was, however, going to cut these out with some letter cutters that I have. I will keep this trick in mind for the next one! :grin:

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Was planning on using letter cut outs...

AOk good! I've only done something like that once and was thinking there's got to be an easier way! I guess not though.

I'm not sure what the cutters you are using are like, so this might not work.

 

But when I want to top a NFSC with fondant I use the same cutter that I cut the cookie out with but when I cut the fondant I press down to cut and then wiggle it back and forth a lot.  This compresses the fondant and makes the shape slightly smaller than the it should be.  That way it sits on my cookie with a little room around the edge.

 

I wonder if you can cut out silver ones as you normally would, then cut out purple ones the way I described above.  Then layer the purple on top of the silver and create the halo around it.

 

Just a thought!

I use cutters and cut 2 out.  I then use my exacto knife and cut away from one of the cutouts to make it smaller than the other one then lay the smaller one on top of the larger cutout.  It works fine for me.

An easier way -- rather than cutting one set smaller, smash one set of cut outs a little larger.

AHonestly, just paint the edges. It's easier than you think.

to add to all the good advice/ideas-- hold the dried letter in one hand and take an edible ink marker and just run it around the edge -- you can get bold and angle the marker over some to make the outline deeper-- but i've never seen a silver edible ink marker -- not that it doesn't exist i've just never seen it--

 

so that way ^^^ you slide the marker around the edge--this next way using paint or powder you can slide the edge of a paintbrush down against the edge of the dry letter all the way around to ensure getting it even -

AThanks everybody! I think the painting thing is the way to go, although I did have another thought I may try sometime. Cut the letters you are going to need out of whatever color your main color will be. Then, take some fondant or 50/50 gumpaste that is white, and cut the letters out of the white. You can then set your colored letters in the spot where you cut them from the white. The you can trim the white and voila! Make sense?