[postimage id="5541" thumb="900"]Ok I bought a silicone musical note staff online. The mold is quite shallow and thin. I have tried to mold fondant into it with absolutely no success. I've used molds before successfully but this is too tiny ! Cake is due tomorrow and ideas on how to make this work? I'll attach a pic.
My suggestion would be to use the molds as a way to emboss your already icing covered cake, the pipe over those markings.
One other idea would be to make a rectangle of fondant the same size as the mold but a bit thicker and place the whold rectangle on the mold, pressing down (roll over it) to emboss the design then cutting away the excess w/.an exacto knife.
looks like a lace mold
http://www.cakecentral.com/forum/t/832472/sugar-lace-recipe-please-help
you could possibly use thinned fondant -- thinned with water to piping consistency and pipe it in and freeze it and very very carefully unmold it onto a soft towel or something and apply it -- maybe -- if you have a lot more patience than i do --
but at this late date i would pipe it on the cake if i couldn't do the lace --
maybe you could do pate choux piped in and baked -- cream puff pastry -- maybe a glaze made with gelatin -- maybe fudge -- but you're almost out of time to experiment --
you can buy lace mix all ready to go at hobby lobby its the sunnyside bakery brand -- something like that -- i have some but i can't find it -- it's in the cake stuff aisle if yours carries it -- that is if you are in the states and live close enough to one which i hope you do :)
i've put straight up american buttercream in molds and frozen it but not that intricate -- y'know if you do the notes first and remove them all -- frozen that is and keep them frozen -- then do the lines, freeze, handle frozen -- you might could pull this off
that will be really pretty --
you could use some licorice stings for a staff -- or ropes made from fondant -- place a rope between two dowel or bamboo skewers to get it rolled the same thickness and use that for the staff maybe
[postimage id="5785" thumb="900"]Thanks for the help. After the holidays I will try out the lace mold with the correct medium. But here's what I ended up with just making the notes myself. The little girl it was for was happy so that's all that matters! Thanks again will be using these forums a lot now that I've found them!
that's a real cute cake -- you did a great job --
btw I've seen sugar veil, aka cake lace mix at Michael's in a smaller portion than the sunnyside bakery brand at hobby lobby -- just fyi
best to you
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