What Color Compliments Yellow? (Also Fondant Question)
Decorating By FerretDeprived Updated 1 Feb 2007 , 6:47am by bejewelled
I'm making a yellow duck ,and i want to cover the cake board with fondant if i can, maybe add some little "bubbles". but what color would compliment yellow(its mostly yellow with just a itty bit of red to deepen it..)?
Also, if i want the beak to adhere to the cake, how do i do that? I feel like it's going to be a fairly thick beak ,and it will be heavy enough that i have to worry about it falling. What are some ways to make it stick reliably? Will water/buttercream really do the trick?
I've adhered thin peices and decoration with lemon/clear vanilla ,but again they were thin not thick like the beak.
Hiya ferret,
Violet or purple is the complement of yellow hun.
Would a pastel purple do ok to?
Maybe i've been inserting it wrong, but every time i try to use spaghetti or something similar to stick a heavy fodnant object on it falls off. The spaghetti is to smooth and i guess loses its support? Same with tooth picks. It all just ends up on my counter..
(don't worry, i edited my original post lol it's not your fault.)
Maybe i'll do a a pink for valentines day coming up? I'm going to be selling the cakes.. so neh. I'm also doing a red and pink bear.. so maybe i shoudl stick to purple for a change?
How large will the duck be? This is just a crazy thought---, but--- If the duck is big enough to be proportionate - Could you use an icecream cone and cover it with bc, fondant, or royal icing, but not cover it all the way down. Leave enough of the cone sticking out at the bottom so that you could push it into the cake. Maybe it would be too round? Oh well, my mind is alway running rampid. lol
Purple, blue, green, peach -would all be nice w/ yellow
Thanks ,but i already have a pan. The rubber duck pan wilton sells is to large. I have the mini stand up bear, i'm going to convert that to a duck.
A ice cream cone would be to big, thank you though.
I might make myself some fondant sticks with some texture on them to help. thank you.
Thanks for the color suggestions to!
next time you have some royal icing or gumpaste, use the left over to make sticks. When dry you have them for next time for strengthening things like beaks. Just pipe royal icing using something like a no#7 round or larger and with gumpaste you can just make a sausage and twist it. The twist, help give some grip when inserting into cake.
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