How do you all get the quilted effect on the sides of your cakes? It's so pretty & I'd love to know how to do it. Thanks!
You can also buy a patchwork cutter which you use to emboss the pattern on
Wilton just put out one last year.It is similar to a tracing wheel that dressmakers use.There are also impression mats out that you can press on after also.
Thanks all! I need to get some fondant crimpers & embossing tools!
It's called a "pouncing tool"...I used Advent method but my ruler was one of those triangle rulers. I cut a poster board template so that I could wrap it around the top edge of the cake, I pressed the hard ruler into the fondant gently..
Then followed the line with the pouncing wheel.
My quilted cake is under the name of Wedding cake final...I think! it's a pink 2 tiers and another in Ivory with 3 tiers.
Adven68, how far apart did you make your lines when you quilted?
Btw, I looked at your photos and you have an INSANE amount of talent!
Susan
Thanks so much peanut2!!! I never heard it put quite that way!
I really don't measure...I'm really good at eyeballing it..(that comes from painting for so many years)....but maybe an inch or so? You can use that spacer tool that Wilton sells. If you figure out the circumference of the cake, it will tell you exactly how far apart to place the lines to be perfectly spaced all the way around. My only quilted cake so far was square so the same rules don't really apply. P.Diva has the right idea....just press the ruler gently in the fondant (I use fondant).
Thanks again!
p.s. Diva...that quilted cake is so cute!
lol thank you....I have to measure everything as I work with a disability. I am blind from one eye and have no depth perception.
In other words I have no idea how far things are from one another, it's killer for parking..lol
I have the quilting embosser from Marion Frost. Even though that one is so much faster and I like fast.
I prefer doing it the old fashioned way with ruler and measuring because I can "change" the pattern to suit my creative juices.
So if I have a bit of time to play with I will always use this method!
Were is a good place to buy the fondant embossers? Thanks!
Hey Diva, My oldest daughter has no depth perception either. I've never known anyone else with that. She was born with a rare genetic disorder. Bless her heart curbs and things really throw her sometimes. We were walking through a parking lot the other day and there was a yellow painted line and she stopped and waited for me to help her step down. Not realizing that is was just a painted line. To her a yellow painted line in a parking lot symbolizes a curb.
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