What is the best way to do a display dummy cake. I have seen products that are supposed to go on like icing, but be washable once dry. I've never done one before and wonder what people usually use.
Are you talking about the dummy itself? You can buy one or sometimes packing places have round circles. You can glue these together to however high you want with styrofoam glue, then just over with saran wrap and spread icing like a normal cake.
If you are talking about a practice icing, then there is a "decorator's buttercream" you can use just for practice or just use a royal type icing, powdered sugar and water.
I hope that answers your question.
My dummy is covered with fondant it dries hard. In my photos the green one with the bow on top.
I have 5 display cakes in my basement right now. Two are covered in BC (the Wilton prepared tub kind- not what I use on cakes, but it was easier and it doesn't have butter in it) and 3 in fondant. They've been there since January. They are all dried and doing fine.
I looked at the other things (Perma-Ice, etc) but didn't really want to pay the prices.
All materials were places directly on the foam as well. They aren't covered in plastic wrap or anything either.
That being said, a great place for dummies is:
http://www.dallasfoamonline.com
if you don't have them yet. I ordered all the dummies for the previously mentioned cakes from them and just placed another large order. Their customer service is great and there isn't a minimum order like it mentions on the site.
HTH!
I've covered my dummy's with joint compound before and BELIEVE me, it HAS to be totally dry before you cover it with fondant!!!!!! It works really good too! Can sand it as smooth as a baby's butt!!! LOL
I've used styrofoam rounds glued together and I've also used round (or square) hat boxes! I found some on sale and thought "hey, these look like cakes!" You can even get them in graduating sizes for stacked dummys! I've also heard mention of some sort of pink stuff at Home Depot but I haven't had the chance to check that out yet.
LOVE DUMMY'S!!!!!!!
I've covered my dummy's with joint compound before and BELIEVE me, it HAS to be totally dry before you cover it with fondant!!!!!! It works really good too! Can sand it as smooth as a baby's butt!!! LOL
I've used styrofoam rounds glued together and I've also used round (or square) hat boxes! I found some on sale and thought "hey, these look like cakes!" You can even get them in graduating sizes for stacked dummys! I've also heard mention of some sort of pink stuff at Home Depot but I haven't had the chance to check that out yet.
LOVE DUMMY'S!!!!!!!
Why do you compond your dummy then use fondant I just wet my styro foam and the fondant sticks and dries hard. Seems like extra work to me to do both. I'v used royal icing but it was to much work to do all that sanding.
You are TOTALLY right Sharon! I was experimenting with the compound in the past and discovered it had to be dry first before any fondant goes on. I discovered "after" ALL THAT EXTRA WORK, that I could cover the styro without anything on it! The only problem I had was a little tearing of the fondant at the top edge but as long as my fondant isn't too thin, it's not a problem.
The sanded compound works great if you just want to deco that without fondant on it like you would a BC cake. You can also texturize the compound for different looks that you can't get from fondant. Now a days I do one or the other but never both compound and fondant anymore! I learned the hard way but hey! We only make the same mistake twice right??!
Thanks for bringing it up though! Maybe someone else will learn from this mistake and not go through what I did!!!LOL
Blessings Sharon,
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