I'm a home baker, whose client has provided me with this image of a cake she wants me to emulate for her wedding, but I'm a little stuck on how to achieve the effect. The cake appears to be buttercream, with white or cream piped/painted/ palette knife painted floral designs, and then colours applied afterwards, but for the life of me I can't work out how to apply colour without crushing or damaging the texture of the buttercream with my brush. I have tried on a crusted buttercream with straight luster dusts and with alcohol/colouring mix but I either damage the buttercream, simply wipe the buttercream off the cake without applying the colour, or look like I let a 5 year old loose on my cake.
Has anyone any ideas how to do this? Otherwise I may just give up on buttercream entirely and do it in royal icing so I have a solid surface to paint onto.
Side question: has anyone ever piped or painted BC onto a ganache base rather than a BC base before? I feel like it would be a firmer canvas
I agree that you could do a much prettier job by using colored buttercream applied with a palette knife. I don't know if the buttercream would adhere to ganache or not, but I am guessing it would be fine unless the temp is high. You could also do the painting with colored ganache.
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