Cake Decorating Community - Cakes We Bake

I have a cake competition next month. I am trying to obtain a wood look texture.  I have color the fondant brown but I would like it to have the wood grain look, but I do not know how.  Does anyone has ideas that I can use.  Here is some of the items that that needs the texture.  This will be covered in fondant.  The base is going to look like hardwood floors.  This is another area that I will need the wood grain look.  Please, any ideas are welcome!!!!!!!

Views: 477

Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

OMG!!!! That looks so awesome!!!!  It really looks like hardwood floors.  It looks so real!!!!  Thank you so much!!!! That is an awesome technique!!

Thanks

Ana

Linda Wolff said:

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

Linda

How about leather texture?  Any ideas for that?  Please?

Thanks

Ana

Ana L Duncan said:

OMG!!!! That looks so awesome!!!!  It really looks like hardwood floors.  It looks so real!!!!  Thank you so much!!!! That is an awesome technique!!

Thanks

Ana

Linda Wolff said:

Hi Ana, I did a base to my fruit basket as a wooden table. What I did was take whatever colors I had on hand of fondant, oranges, yellows, brown, reds, almost any color. Then I rolled them out into long rolls and put them side by side and did a twist to kind of hold them together. Then I started rolling out this weird mess of colors towards the length of the fondant until I felt like it would cover the length of my board. Then started rolling towards the width. I kept this up alternating back and forth until I had enough to cover the board, then trimmed off the excess. Then I mixed up some brown food paste with some vodka and started painting over the whole piece of fondant. Here is a picture of what it looked like once I had painted it with the vodka and brown color. The full picture of the cake with the fruits and basket are in my photo album on my page. I got a blue ribbon on this cake. Hope this gives you some ideas. =O)

Well, since my husband makes leather purses and belts and stuff like that, I have used a piece of his scraps to use as a texture mat to roll fondant or gum paste on. You could also go to a fabric store and look in the upholstery section where they have fake leather for chairs or sofas and purchase a 1/2 yard to a yard and use that as your texture mat. Roll out the fondant or gum paste right onto the textured part of the fabric and you should have exactly what you are looking for. upholstery fabric is pretty heavy duty so it should work great. =O)

Awesome!!!!! thank you so much Linda.  You have been an awesome help!!

Thank you dearly!!!

Ana

I made a cake with edible images on it and then created fondant 'wood' frames.  I found a plastic wood-grain texture mat at Michaels that was in the caking aisle & mfg by the Duff line.  Not sure if that will help you.

Reply to Discussion

RSS

© 2024   Created by Theresa Happe.   Powered by

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service