Cake Decorators Advice Needed Please...

Thriftygifty

Just after some advice is anyone could help me.... We are buying the M&S wedding cake tiers and stacking them ourselves, i've seen a picture of how I would ideally like the cake to look but i'm not sure what the decoration is round the side and wondered if anyone knew. It's looks like a lace/detailed ribbon round the centre of the tier but with a raised surface and very silver/grey, it's not ribbon and would think it's ok to eat as it's actually on the cake rather then round the bottom but havent seen anything like it before. Anyone know? There is also a string of pearls around the bottom of each tier but I think this is a fondant mould to make the string of pearls. Really hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

browneyedbazzi

Could you post a link to the picture you've seen or something similar?

You can roll out icing (which you can get in different colours or make the colour you want) and then use stamps to cut out a lace pattern or use a mould to make a lace effect out of icing then stick it to the cake. Some very talented people (not me!) can also pipe a lace effect onto cakes (which I think looks amazing)

Thriftygifty

http://bobbetteandbelle.com/cus_lux_wed_cakes.html

It's the 4th one along the top row, the pink, white and silver. Looking closer at it looks to be an individul mould rather than a string which I thought it was. Can you get silver paint? How does that stick to the cake?

I love this cake but wondering if it might be alittle difficult to make from the M&S tiers?

Any advice would be great. I thought I could cake cake dummys and cover them to go between the normal cake layers.

Hmmm.... suggestions welcomed.

browneyedbazzi

That picture looks like piped silver/grey icing with some of the little silver sugar pearls stuck onto it. It's hard to tell from the picture how they've done the white pearls around the edge but they look shiny so may be a similar sugar product that has been stuck on.

In terms of how you stick things to the cake, some things you can attach with icing (probably how the silver sugar pearls are attached) and you can also use edible glue.

There are edible paints available that can be used on cakes as well if you want to go that route.

As for what to attempt yourself - it depends on what level of skill you have and how long you have to practice! If the wedding is a while away then get some supplies in and start practising your piping skills (my mom used to practice onto a cake tin so she could scrape it off and go again).

me-shelly

Hi, looks to me like the piping work is done with royal icing coloured silver and then varying sized silver balls stuck on. They should stick to royal icing no problem. The pearls look piped to me again with royal icing, you can get a nozzle but I don't know which one it is. I think using dummies wrapped in ribbon would be ok, I presume you would still have to use dowels so that the cakes would stay on top of each other and not sink.

Thriftygifty

Oooo I think piping it is beyond me I was hoping it was done using a mould. Do you reckon I could get a mould that would do something like this?

awesome2_2

Thriftygifty wrote: »

Oooo I think piping it is beyond me I was hoping it was done using a mould. Do you reckon I could get a mould that would do something like this?

Hi
Just had a quick look on ebay which is a great source for cake decorating things found this its the closest one I could find not used moulds like this myself here's the link


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lace-Moulds-Mold-for-sugarcraft-Sugar-Cake-Clay-Ellegance-Flower-Lace-/121059089474?pt=Uk_Crafts_Cake_Decorating_MJ&hash=item1c2faf1c42

BloomingTasty

Thriftygifty wrote: »

Oooo I think piping it is beyond me I was hoping it was done using a mould. Do you reckon I could get a mould that would do something like this?

You can def buy lace type moulds. Like someone, sorry forgotten your name as I write, ebay a good place or I use a company called cake-stuff.com. you'd use fondant in the mould then stick to cake either using a bit of royal icing or edible glue. Then you buy a edible silver paint or a silver powder which you mix with alcohol, I use vodka and paint on. Then add silver balls if you wanted to. Certainly use dummies and cover with ribbon to separate then tiers. You will need to dowel the tiers. You can buy the dowels and the polystyrene separaters from m&s. The only thing with their cakes is they sometimes have some fancy icing on them, you can chip it off but it may mark so just check to be sure.

Hope this helps

danielag

Hi, I would add up everything that you need to buy: dowels, moulds, dummies, ect, these all really add up and before you know it, it may work out a similar price to have it made for you? Have you tried the local cake shops/cake pages on facebook?

Thriftygifty

Thank you everyone for your replies. I've decided not to buy the M&S cakes as they still work out £100+ and they simply arent right, i'm not happy with the depth of them. So we are going back to the start with the cake and thinking from scratch again. I'm still toying with the idea of making it myself but not this one as I think it will be abit beyond me but I thought I might take some aspect from this one.

Brian_Mitchell

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