STAND UP DECORATIONS
Hullo, I was wondering if anybody can advise me on what it is that one would use to do a stand up picture on a cake that would not fall down? I am wanting to make a winnie the pooh cake but instead of making his character out of fondant, I thought I would like to draw him and then cut him out and let him stand up (wanna make the cake look more like an illustration from a book) - but what to draw him on to let him stand up straight? Helpppppp :-)
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Permalink Reply by Taina McFadyen on
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cut out fondant? do you mean like a pop-up book
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Permalink Reply by June Kowalczyk on
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Don't know if this is what you mean Mandy, but I put a pic of my daughter & my sn-in-lw on her wedding shower cake. Wanted it to "stand". I took a good old fashioned wooden clothes peg, attached the photo. Pushed peg into cake & I disguised it with BC icing. You could embellish peg with fondant accents. Hope this helps. :0)
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Permalink Reply by Chris Kozaczynski on
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You can make a pastillage plaque and stand. After that you can paint it with gel colors, or affix an edible image. That would be my course as I like to have everything on my cakes "edible". I'll post a picture of a photo on a pastillage plaque that I made.
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Permalink Reply by Karen Blunden on
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Im with Chris, pastillage is the way to go. I have a picture in my gallery of a 50th wedding anniversary cake with a standing photo on top this was done in pastillage with an edible image attached.
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Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on
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Thanking you kindly - anybody got a failproof recipe for pastillage please? :-)
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I am on my IPod so can't "cut & paste" the info. My easy recipe came from CC. Google pastillage, and hopefully it will come up.It is called" Easy Pastillage "from Oct/09, posted by Anonymous.
Hope this helps. :0)
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Thank you June you gem!!!! I found it and now I am armed with it I shall head off for the local supermarket and try to obtain the gelatin (trust the sachets will contain the right quantity) and also cornstarch???? (Never used that before - but here goes ....) x
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Hmmm
Good question. Mandy. Could be in your neck of the woods? From what my google search it told me, yes. Here in Canada it is refered to as corn "starch"...but according to google... corn "flour" in Uk, Aus, New Z & ZA
And yes the sachets of gelatin are fine. A warning Mandy...this stuff dries super fast. I have used it in a mould, but never made flowers cause for me anyway, just not enough "working" time. I guess if you work fast and your good at making a lot of flowers, then it is the perfect medium to work with. I like gumpaste, or 50/50 fondant/gumpaste mixture. Has better working time.
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In the US, if you ask for corn flour, you will get a very finely ground corn meal that would be used as wheat flour in baking. Corn starch is simply the starch that can be used to thicken sauces or in our case, keep your gumpaste/fondant from sticking. Many use this or 10x when decorating.
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