A client just e-mailed me this picture as an inspiration. Is that pulled sugar ?

It's gorgeous and I'd hate to tell her no, but I'm stumped.

That looks like gumpaste that was ruffled, hardened and the placed on the cake.

Rachel

thats exactle what i thought too...wow..it's great!!!

Holy Moley, it is georgous....beautiful shade of blue

I agree...gumpaste painted with an aqua colored lustre dust.

I agree and 3rd that motion....gumpaste and inexpensive fake pearls....
sorry I think this is one ugly cake!!!!

I KNOW what it is:
1. a beautiful cake
2. a lot of work
3. very expensive

On another note, yes, I think those are gum paste ruffles and edible pearls and flowers--oh, and lots of luster dust.

Best wishes on your interpretation!

Rae

I've seen this cake before. It's from a website.

Okay...any ideas on how to continuously ruffle that much gumpaste ? I need to figure the hours of labor to quote her.

I couldn't begin to guess on how lonh it would take, but I would make a practuce ruffle just so you know how to do it and how long it will take.

I think it looks like gumpaste ruffle and pearls. And about a gallon of luster dust! I think it looks like something that would come with a barbie doll- "Barbie's dream cake!" A bit too much for me!

It's hard to find just the right words here............. uh but I do agree that they look like edible pearls painted with luster dust. Good luck!

i kinda like it.
i would practice on the ruffle. but i would do one layer of ruffles at a time, it dries so fast that i dont think it would be that hard. well maybe hard, but not impossible. i may try to do this cake for fun sometime.

let us see it when your done!

good luck!

melody

What I Would do if I were making that cake, is I'd make a template of a kind of ruffled thing, then I'd cut out many many gumpaste circles with the template and dry the ruffled out parts over something to make them go up, like a ball or one of my small mise en place bowls. Let it dry, and voila, c'est parfait!

Rachel

And to quote her time on that, I'd say cutting them out would take about 3 -4 hours based on how many of them there are.

Rachel

I agree with the rest, its gumpaste with sprayed on luster dust, alot of it. I feel sorry for the person that has to cut this cake, I will admit the design is different, but not real practical. It is my understanding that gumpaste flower and designs are more for decoration not eating. I would say that the ruffles will take 4-6 hours once you figure out your sizes to fit your layers. You will have to allow for the extra in the ruffle. Kinda like making curtains you have to allow for extra yardage. If your cake is 10 inches, you will have to figure the circumference plus the extra for the curves in the ruffle. You may have to use a board the size of your cake as a pattern for your ruffle to go around and then use something to hold its shape until it dries. Good Luck with this and I hope you plan on charging a subtantial price for this.

just my thought but i believe it could be done with fondant if the room temperature is cold and not humid. i couldn't understand how you could cut cut dried up gumpaste if you roll fondant very thin it should hold the shape as the ruffle are not very wide.

and the pearls can be done with fondant as well. you need to use lots of lusterdust though.

Use the same technique as if you were making a fondant garrett frill.

Mix yuor fondant with some gumpaste so you have a 50/50 mix.
Cut a circle of this out. Make sure there is plenty of icing sugar under the edges. Using the handle of a childs paintbrush gently start rolling around the edges. It will ruffle up as if by magic. stick to your cake with a little water. Make the next layer a little smaller until you have as many layers as required.

If the frills look like they're drooping you can place a little crumpled tissue paper underneath until the frills are dried then gently pull them out.

Any patches of sugar on the frills just magically seem to vanish by the next day

OMG that is GORGEOUS!

Thats a dream on for me cake!!Good luck with it!

I love fantasy cakes and this one it super!!! Love the color too!!!
You would most likely have to carefully crack off or lift off the ruffles
for the cutting of the cake.
Good luck!! Can't wait to see a pic of your cake!!!

sorry posted to the wrong thread.

Interesting - that cake showed up in another thread. That cake was on this site, then disappeared, and now people are wondering if someone posted a cake that wasn't theirs. Hmmmm....

These look like GP definately, but they are probably a form of collar if you've seen those. Colette uses them in one of her books. They can be done in GP, chocolate, or even pastillage. If you made the ruffles in GP, you still have to have put wires in them while making them to insert into the cake, or make a regular colar to go between layers and ruffle the edges. For the pearls, you can hand roll them, or just buy dragees and shake them in a bag with pearl dust. Looks beautiful. I'm pretty sure that Scott Clark Woolley carries the cutters for this.