Hi,
I was hoping someone could help me with this type of fondant design on a wedding cake a friend has asked me to make. I have studied it and it seems to be made of strips of fondant wrapped around the cake.
If anyone has any better ideas of how I could put this together I would be very grateful.
Thanks
Simone
I think you'll find it is one strip wrapped from the bottome up, or at most 2 or 3 strips. You'd want to avoid doing each layer as an individual strip otherwise, you'd have joins all the way up the back. Just be sure to start at the bottom, then when you get to the top you can fold the final piece over and cover it with flowers.
It's funny you said one or two strips. I was thinking circles when I looked at it (like one for each layer, same diameter on the inside circle and different variations on the outside, if that makes any sense). BUT I think you might be right! Just goes to show, whenever possible I'll make more work for myself 
That's a lovely cake!
-Mchelle
Try:
http://www.thehouseofsugar.com
Look under cakes; maison de chocolat;Montagne de Chocolat. "...wrapped in a huge swathe of dark chocolate fondant..."
Thanks for your help. I am going to practice with a dummy cake again today. Had a few goes yesterday but was using 2 to strips per layer. I found that when I was trying to us one big strip it would tear in some parts. I will try making it a little thicker this time.
Thanks again for your response and especially for the link to that delicious looking site.
Have a great day
Simone 
What a gorgeous cake!! I´m thinking the same as bejeweled, try 2 or 3 long strips and go around or also, I would measure the diameter of the cake and cut strips that size and just go around it and have a seem on the back, maybe cove it with more flowers?? Can´t wait to see the finished cake, good luck and HTH.
Hi,
Just to let you know the wedding was last friday and the cake was a smash. It was 3 tiers of dark chocolate mud, white chocolate mud and banana cake.
I have attached a photo and once again thanks for the advice.
Simone
I just commented on the photo. I love this look! I had never even heard of such a thing as wrapping the cake like this. It is beautiful!!! I am not daring enough to even give it a try. You are amazing at it!!! Congratulations!!
Tanya
PS, Just wondering how you managed to stack the three cakes using this method? Did you use the cake boards for each layer?
simone1310, I like your cake even better than the original design, you did an outstanding job!!!
Thanks for the lovely complements.
I had a few practice attempts with dummy cakes before.
The cakes were 8" and I used 7" boards and dowels between layers. I covered each cake with fondant icing stacked them and left them overnight to let the icing set. The next day I wrapped the cake in strips in 3 stages. I started from the bottom and applied the icing, with water,in the morning and the second strip about 3 hours later and so on.
It helped using a revolving turntable and plenty of icing sugar so the strips wouldn't stick together when I rolled them up after cutting to size.
simone1310, I like your cake even better than the original design
Me too. Your cake looks fantastic.
SAVE!
You did an AMAZING job!!!
Spectacular - yours is more beautiful than your inspiration!
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