Help! Edible Butterflies On Cheesecake??
Decorating By LABreakall Updated 21 Jun 2018 , 5:23pm by -K8memphis
Hello. I am new to this forum but I imagine it works like many other ones. I have just recently taken up baking and decorating cakes. I do it for family events. My brother in law is getting married. So naturally I offered to do their cake. Cupcakes and then 3 cheesecakes. I am hoping to find some sort of "floating" cake stands to tier the 3 cheesecakes. Then use edible butterflies swooping up the tiered cheesecakes. It just dawned on me that you have to use a "glue" to adhere the butterflies. Ive only adhered decorations on a frosted or fondant covered cake. So question...Can you adhere edible butterflies (wafer paper) to a plain cheesecake? If so, what is the best method and materials?
Thanks so much for any advice and/or tips!!
you wouldn't wanna get talked into covering them with white ganache would yah? that would work as is --
but otherwise can you keep the butterflies on the crust -- will they be flying up the sides or all over the top too? it sounds lovely --
i'm still thinking about this...
you could affix them to the skinny type pretzels -- i would knock off the salt -- now those could be dipped into white chocolate -- or you could make some pate choux -- that is cream puff dough and just pipe out some little sticks -- bake 'em and those could be dipped as well* -- but would work great -- especially if the butterflies rise in height all over the top tier -- you could get some great height because the butterflies themselves could be their own camouflage for the sticks -- if you have the back of the butterflies toward the front view of the cake like they are flying up toward the ceiling (not flying across/horizontal)
so if you look at the cake from the back you would see the sticks but if you look at it from the other side the butterfly wings would cover all the sticks -- does that come across the page to you?
but test the pate choux -- needs to be baked off well -- i don't remember doing this exactly with chocolate so test it -- but they could be dipped in royal icing too--
some butterfly thoughts for you
and i would apply the butterflies after delivery -- and cheesecake cannot sit out more than two hours so it needs to placed out at the last possible minute -- right when the reception starts -- cut served, eaten and leftover tucked in the fridge within two hours!
of course we have all probably eaten cheesecakes that's been let out longer "and no one died" yes of course -- but you are catering now and you are responsible for a lot of different people that you may or may not know the exact true healthiness of -- so we operate on the safest side of healthy -- can't be out more than two hours -- you may not know who has crohn's, etc. might be a tiny baby an elderly person -- some of our healthiest friends have debilitating diseases -- you never know --
seemingly healthy -- most health conscious -- most active is what i meant by some of out healthiest friends have crohn's, etc.
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