Thick Or Wide Scrolls, Waves Question
Decorating By TickledPink Updated 11 Oct 2006 , 12:13am by CindyW
My question is what material would the heavy, thick scollwork be in? Is it molded fondant or could you use piped buttercream? As in the example below where it gets thick and very full and round.
I'm wanting to make a cake that has fondant waves, like the ocean, around the cake and as the wave crests I want it to be heavier, thicker, and just wondering if I should do the waves in fondant, then pipe extra buttercream on top or make it out of thick fondant?
Also the lettering in Colette's cake, any idea what material that is made from?
http://colettescakes.com/imgs_wed/FN_winner_front.jpg
http://colettescakes.com/imgs_wed/nymagb.jpg
Check out this topic that Adven68 posted. She had done some cakes with lettering similiar to this. Also check out her pictures for some she has done. I haven't tried this lettering yet but it is on my to do list.
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-4991-gumpaste.html+letters
I know there is another topic out there that someone else also did this lettering but I can not find it. i just remember it is a chocolate cake with White pearl letters.
Hope this helps.
Leily
Hi there....I love this style....I stole it from Collete...guilty as charged. The link to my instuctions is what I was going to refer to. I used gumpaste because it's what I had around. It worked very well....easy and smooth. Fondant is also good...although I find it harder to get super smooth....but it will work....just make sure you let it dry thouroghly. I just got off another post and they were suggesting adding a little gum-tex to MMF or regular fondant to make it dry hard. Have fun!!!!
Thank you ever so much, I looked at your King Cake and yes, that's totally it. I love it.
I have already tried piping royal icing and I wasn't satisfied with the results although mine didn't break at all. I piped some lettering and numbers for practise but I did use "just whites" the liquid egg stuff intead of the meringue powder, don't know if that is what made them rock hard or not but they were extremely sturdy.
BUT my one complaint about the royal icing was, when I painted on it, it changed the texture of the finish, almost looked like a tiny bit of acid had eaten into the royal icing, just a tiny bit but enough that I didn't like it. I am sure I will have better sucess painting on gumpaste.
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