Please Help Me To Identify This Technique!
Decorating By rebeck9 Updated 8 Feb 2016 , 8:11am by rebeck9
It looks like edible lace over marbled fondant to me. Looks like maybe on tier 1 the edge is turned to ruffle back out in the front instead of folded and tucked under the edge of the second tier. But everywhere else its got the pleat-type folds.
Honestly? The real question to me is what type of lace it is. I'm not entirely sure it's edible lace. I was asked to put a 3" wrap of stretchy fabric lace around a "champagne" (biege) colored wedding cake recently and it looked a lot like that. The one I used fit in the center of the tier. But looking at the way the folds lay on tier three makes me wonder if this isn't fabric lace too. I've used some edible lace but it was a homemade version. I haven't used the Martello Sugar Dress I have in the cabinet yet. I'm not sure how it handles and if edible lace would fold quite that way. Maybe a more experienced lace decorator can answer that?
When you look closely at the flowers they look like fabric so I'm thinking it is fabric lace around the cake. You could achieve a similar look with edible lace. I recently made a cake with edible lace and it does look similar but the lace mould is tall enough to neatly fit on a 10cm high cake without the folded over part on the top of each cake.
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