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leebarton
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OK, I know this is a weird one, but knowing what a resourceful bunch you are I thought I might get a sensible answer here.
I am looking for a recipe to make non-edible fairy cakes to practice decorating on and for display. I have trawled the web and not been able to find any useful information.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks
I am looking for a recipe to make non-edible fairy cakes to practice decorating on and for display. I have trawled the web and not been able to find any useful information.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks
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Just use an ordinary recipe. They'll dry out and go stale and so be totally inedible, but they'll be fine for practicing decorating on and you'll be able to display them for a certain length of time. I'm not sure if you can buy dummy buns but you can definitely buy dummy cakes, they're basically big blocks of polystyrene that you can use to practice deorating. You could always ask in you local cake decorating shop.
The only other thing I've seen (and I'm not sure if it's available over here) are lots of US sellers on ebay who make fake cakes for display. They seem to use something a bit like polyfilla and some of them have it for sale on their sites. I'm not sure if you'd be able to get it posted but it might be worth finding out what it's called.0 -
Cut an old washing up sponge into a circle?!
Edit - sorry didn't read the post propperly might not be very good for a display!0 -
What about making some fake cakes out of plaster of paris and then paint them the same colour as a cake? I would have thought you could easily pick this up fairly cheaply from a modelling/hobby shop or ebay? Thanks to MSE, I am mortgage free!0
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Salt dough - then varnish them maybe :staradmin:starmod: beware of geeks bearing .gifs...:starmod::staradmin:starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:0
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Thanks for your answers. I have tried salt dough - it weighed a ton and didn't look very good! :-)
I had a look at the American ones and they do seem to be plaster so I think I will give that a go.First Direct Loan @ 7.9% £13,076.03/£20,250
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