Mendhi Pattern On Cake Help...
Decorating By Lousbakehouse Updated 13 Nov 2016 , 11:57pm by remnant3333
Evening all,
Just wanting a little advice on how to go about making this cake for a friends party. I've never done anything like this before and wondering whether this pattern should be piped with royal icing and then painted with a gold lustre to achieve the colour? What tip would you use?
Any tips or advice on making this would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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I've done gold piping like this before.
I piped with royal icing and then painted gold mixed with vodka. I did a couple light layers, drying thoroughly between...if it wasn't dry enough it would pull the paint off.
I would use tip 2 or 3. I would use royal and paint like Scampbell731 stated.
I painted piped royal icing before and find it a pain. If you are not super carefully it looks sloppy and you can never cover everything without getting paint on the fondant. Using yellow RI might help but I saw recently on here someone using gold tinted RI and I think that would be the best and neatest way.
Billiant thank you for your advice everyone. Yes i was thinking of adding a colour to the royal icing first to make it look more cream/beige/gold as a base before applying the lustre .
What consistency of royal icing would you recommend? I have some ready made as well as a make up your own box as wasnt sure on which would be the best.
I made this Henna style cake a few years ago when I was starting out; it's just pipped royal icing using the smallest Wilton "dot" tip..I think it was the #3? And then I used a small wet paint brush to touch up as I went.
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Thats beautiful piping @Gingerlocks ! What was your consistency of the RI like? I'm guessing i'm just going to have to play around with a mock up to see how it goes.
@Lousbakehouse I used a really firm RI for this. You don't want it to run or "move".
Just wanted to say thanks for the tips and to share my cake that I made at the weekend... pretty pleased with it. Was my first ever 2 tier cake too!
Thanks again for the advice
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