Frilly cake, how to do

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Permalink Reply by Linda Wolff on September 24, 2011 at 1:48am

Maria! It is beautiful! I love the gradation of the colors. I have been working all week long making flowers and also working on the wedding cake. Tomorrow is the wedding, and it is 12:41am (just past midnight) and I am still not done! My back hurts, my head hurts and my fingers hurt from ruffling the fondant for the frills. I am just taking a break before getting back to finishing up the top tier. I'm not even going to clean up my mess when I go to bed. It can wait until the morning. I have 4 to 5 more rows to do on the top, then I am done! As soon as I clean up my mess and place the cake on the table I will take a picture and post it. I also had a grooms cake to make and a sheet cake with 48 extra servings that the bride's Mom ordered last week because more family were coming than expected.

I love, love your cake!
Maria Cristina Drei said:

hi Linda this mornig I tried an other " frilly cake" using shades of pink and red. It's a little cake because I had not so many time, I try to post here, otherwise please can you check it in my photos. Thank you. And your wedding?

Maria Cristina

Linda Wolff said:

Maria, I think Maggie Austin cakes is the one who actually is well known for this technique. Here is a link to her site.http://maggieaustincake.com/

I have done it as a practice cake and also have a wedding cake coming up in September that I am using this technique. That is why I made the practice cake, so that I would be ready in September. I didn't think it was hard. But it was time consuming. As always, I just experimented trying to get 'the look', so what I did may not be the way it is supposed to be done. I cut thin strips from fondant and used the ball tool to thin out one side and as I did it, it made it kind of ruffle. Covered the cake with fondant first, and then started adding my strips starting at the top to bottom. Use toothpicks to hold the frills up as you go, and because they are thin strips, they dry pretty fast. You can see my tiny practice cake in my gallery.

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