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CocoaBlondie
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:33 pm |
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I have a wedding cake to make for a Bride in the fall. She showed me a picture of how she wants it to look exactly. The only thing is she wants all buttercream. From the photo it looks like there is a marble pattern & maybe shimmer dust as well. Anyone have any pointers? |
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waterlily
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:13 pm |
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Im thinking you would have to use air brush somehow. I personally would go to Lowes or home depot and look for a book on wall texturing with paint and see if you could apply it to the cake. Just a thought!  |
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PJ37
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:14 pm |
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Could you use rolled buttercream? (RBC) |
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cakesbyallison
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:59 pm |
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It's definately airbrushed on fondant. You can airbrush on buttercream, and paint on (fine tip) marbled lines. Be sure you tell the bride, it's not going to look exactly like the cake she showed you - so often brides bring you a picture of a beautiful fondant cake, they want the same cake, but don't want fondant!  They don't understand why some designs have to be on fondant, or made with fondant - to get that desired look. You don't want her to be disappointed if it doesn't look exactly like she envisioned! Tell her buttercream is under the fondant, and she can peel if off if she doesn't like it! |
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Janette
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:17 pm |
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I think you could air brush it.
I too tell the Brides that I can work with the picture but because the picture is Fondant it will not look exactly like the pic. |
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BrandisBaked
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:58 pm |
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Airbrushing.
Just make sure you keep the airbrush far away from the cake when you are spraying, so you get muted colors that blend into each other. Put it too close and you'll have a camouflage patterned cake!  |
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Janette
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:04 pm |
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Brandi,
I've read where you can use shimmer dust in your air brush. Have you by any chance tried this? |
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miny
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:22 pm |
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After blending all the colors with the airbrush you can put a coat of pearl shimmer airbrush color just to get the shinny part on the BC, it won't look exactly the same but close. |
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CakeDiva73
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Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:47 pm |
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That like ordering a cheeseburger and then advising the waiter you're a vegetarian and you want the cheeseburger to taste EXACTLY the same, except with no meat???????? wth?
This is my big complaint - all the customers love the designs and styles in fondant but they either don't like it or don't want to pay for it....but they want it to look exactly like the fondant cake??? pfft!!
Ok, sorry for my rant. I believe a gentle hand with an airbrush, shimmer/gold or luster dust and fondant accents (the leaves) will give you that 'effect'. |
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CocoaBlondie
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:26 am |
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Sounds like airbrushing is the way to go! Someone said something about rolled Buttercream? Does anyone have a good recipe or info. Also where might I be able to find a good airbrush @ a resonable price? I'll be sure to tell her I can't dup. this cake exactly. Thanks |
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PJ37
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:54 am |
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Rolled buttercream recipe
http://forum.cakecentral.com/c.....ecipe.html
...and you could just marble this. You could look at my recent Easter cookies and see how it marbles. (I've never used this on cakes, just cookies, but you would handle just like fondant, I would think). |
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CocoaBlondie
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Thanks for the recipe thread. I got a chance to look @ the cookies, they look great. I'll have to try this out. If I like working with it I'll give her a ring to taste test. Otherwise BUMP on the airbrush question? Is there a reasonable effecient one out there? Where might I find one? |
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aswartzw
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| CocoaBlondie wrote: | | Thanks for the recipe thread. I got a chance to look @ the cookies, they look great. I'll have to try this out. If I like working with it I'll give her a ring to taste test. Otherwise BUMP on the airbrush question? Is there a reasonable effecient one out there? Where might I find one? |
RB is very hard to use to cover a cake(it's much more stretchy than fondant). I refrigerate mine after cutting just so it doesn't stretch before putting on my cookies. |
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CocoaBlondie
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:08 pm |
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What might you suggest I do for this cake? Maybe the rolled buttercream is not such a good idea. I hate to fool around with the wrong consistancy. |
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miny
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:19 pm |
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| CocoaBlondie wrote: | | Otherwise BUMP on the airbrush question? Is there a reasonable effecient one out there? Where might I find one? |
Well, I have the airmaster, I have heard about people getting cheaper ones at the hardware store  but I would not recomend this because they are way to hard on the delicate BC and you can end up with a hole in your cake!!!  , unless anyone has a recomendation to avoid this...... |
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