Ivory Coloured Ruffles On Cake.
Decorating By beckybakes617 Updated 5 Feb 2014 , 10:34pm by sixinarow
I will be doing my first wedding cake this year. The bride-to-be wants it ivory in colour. I'm doing ruffles around each tier in gumpaste and I'm wondering what the best method would be to colour it ivory?
I have heard of tiniting the white gumpaste, in ivory edible dust, which I think sounds like a good as I'm not too keen on kneading the gumpaste too much, however if that's a better method I can do that. Is it possible to buy gumpaste already in the ivory colour?
Many thanks
I thought gumpaste would be better as I'll be rolling it out very thin? Or maybe, would you suggest tylose powder mixed with ivory fondant?
You really don't need to add anything to your fondant, on all my ruffle cakes, I just use straight fondant. If you use a soft fondant, after you ruffle the edges with your ball tool, just let it set a few minutes before applying the strips to your fondant covered cake. Color as you usually would! :)
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You really don't need to add anything to your fondant, on all my ruffle cakes, I just use straight fondant. If you use a soft fondant, after you ruffle the edges with your ball tool, just let it set a few minutes before applying the strips to your fondant covered cake. Color as you usually would! :)
This. I'm no expert on ruffles, but I would think it unwise to wrap your cake in a product that has an eggshell consistency that will shatter when cut into. Fondant will be a good deal easier to cut, and taste better as well.
Thank you, I hadn't thought of this. So would you advise on not even mixing tylose power with regular fondant, surely it would be quite tricky to wrap the ruffle strip around the cake?
Just for myself, I'd probably use a mix of modelling chocolate and fondant or even just modelling chocolate Check out wickedgoodies on this site). If using straight fondant leaving it a few minutes to firm up before applying (as sixinarow suggested) would probably take care of any issues with manipulating the ruffle to wrap around the cake.
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Thank you, I hadn't thought of this. So would you advise on not even mixing tylose power with regular fondant, surely it would be quite tricky to wrap the ruffle strip around the cake?
Nope, I've done several ruffle cakes and have used straight fondant on all of them. :)
@ sixinarow,
I especially love the cake on the bottom left. Are the beaded tiers a mold?
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Thank you! The pearls are a mold about 10 inches long. I had a sore thumb for days after squishing fondant into that silly thing. The price of caking!
I can imagine. That cake had to be a labor of love. Have you ever tried the fluorescent light cover for rolling out your fondant?
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Not sure what the "semi-circle thing" is, lol (that's an lol at myself). The fluorescent light cover is those flat textured panels that cover fluorescent light fixtures. They come in different textures. I used one here:
http://cakecentral.com/g/i/3160668/a/3437693/fudge-in-cake/
The one I have gives a very small bubble effect. I'm looking for one with a larger pattern that will be deeper and more bead-like. I have a second one that gives the fondant a crackle aspect, somewhat like frost on a windowpane.
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Not sure what the "semi-circle thing" is, lol (that's an lol at myself). The fluorescent light cover is those flat textured panels that cover fluorescent light fixtures. They come in different textures. I used one here:
http://cakecentral.com/g/i/3160668/a/3437693/fudge-in-cake/
The one I have gives a very small bubble effect. I'm looking for one with a larger pattern that will be deeper and more bead-like. I have a second one that gives the fondant a crackle aspect, somewhat like frost on a windowpane.
WHATTTT?!?! Love that -- now I must drive to the hardware store in the middle of our blizzard to get these covers! Love the texture, very cool!
WHATTTT?!?! Love that -- now I must drive to the hardware store in the middle of our blizzard to get these covers! Love the texture, very cool!
First saw it here:
I couldn't believe that I could use a technique used by Ron ben Israel, just by going to the hardware store.
sixinarow wow, they're really inspirational! I hope that mine is going to look like the one on the bottom right. Which fondant did you use? I'm in the uk so only limited choice! Have been using satin ice in the gumpaste but wilton in fondant which I didn't like working with, may try using satin ice in the fondant though. Also did you start from the top down?
I'm also in the UK, and you can get pre-coloured ivory fondant from Hobbycraft, or colour white fondant yourself. Hobbycraft stock Renshaw's, which is fine. I've also used Squire's Kitchen that I bought from my local cake shop and it was really lovely to work with. I think you can buy their's online too.
I used Renshaw's white for this cake:
I had no problems with it at all. I rolled out six strips at a time, and by the time I'd finished ruffling the last one, the first one was set enough to apply without difficulty. I also used their ivory fondant coloured for this cake:
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[COLOR=404040]sixinarow wow, they're really inspirational! I hope that mine is going to look like the one on the bottom right. Which fondant did you use? I'm in the uk so only limited choice! Have been using satin ice in the gump[/COLOR][COLOR=404040]aste but wilton in fondant which I didn't like working with, may try using satin ice in the fondant though. Also did you start from the top down?[/COLOR]
Actually, the large photo is helpful in that it offers a close up of how it is done. Thank you.
If you click on the pictures, it blows them up larger so you can see details also. :)
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