Hi All.  I am going to try to explain this the best I can.  

So think of a cake on pillars.  You know, the way cakes used to be done a long time ago.  LOL  I'm doing one soon and the bride wants "drapes" hanging down the pillars.  I'm thinking either cake lace or edible fabric.  The problem is that when I make either of those they become dry and brittle over the course of a day.  Is there any way to make cake lace or edible fabric so that it can stay out of an enclosed container and have it not become breakable?

TIA
Christina

i would find a different method -- but i don't know what kind of drapes you mean either -- full disclosure i have never used edible fabric but i have used the lace -- i mean you could use fondant or pipe cake type drapes -- if she means like curtain drapes, you can pipe those too or use fondant-- use something that would be ok for it to harden like royal -- maybe?

I am thinking along he same lines as K8 :)   I would drape thin fondant 

Thank you ladies!  Always great advice.  

I'm going to have to figure out a way to post pictures somehow.  I'm still in the "practicing" mode as the wedding is still 3 weeks away.  I ended up making edible fabric with the chocolate method, not wafer paper.  It's amazing!  I hope the rest of this cake goes as well.  :-)

Christina

sounds good! 

Well, I did it!  And survived it all!  The only way I can show off the final product is to send ya'll to my Pinterest page, and that might or might not work.

Here's my "Lord of the Rings" themed wedding cake with edible drapes....

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/143270831890787563/

very nice! great cake, glad the drapes worked out!!

pretty cake, fabric looks great.

Wow, fabulous! Are all the tiers real cake? Lots of work and patience in there!

Wow.  Nice work! 

Thanks Reggie.  Yes all the tiers are real cake.  The bride was my daughter, one down 6 to go!  LOL.  She designed the cake herself and I did my best to oblige.  

Oh, the love of a mother's heart! I hope the rest of your children are not that close in age, so you can recover between cake and cake! Surely, a cake that awesome only a mother could do! God bless!