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Charlotte's Web

I made this cast party cake for my son's middle school production of Charlotte's Web. Chocolate cake, fondant icing, figures & details. Clouds are buttercream, web says "Some Play", my son's idea, and is made of flexible Royal Icing using Wilton gum paste mix (2 cups mix, 1/3 cup hot water, mix until combined, piped using tip #3).

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Comments (13)

mojaki 2/13/11 at 12:26pm

Not only is the cake spectacular, you give detailed instructions and information that is SO helpful, esp. for beginners like me! Thanks so much, and ......great job!

3majsiemaja 2/13/11 at 12:33pm

it's so cute and beautiful

FullHouse 2/13/11 at 12:35pm

Thank you. I also meant to add that I painted "Some Play" with silver luster dust & Everclear.

Cargal 2/13/11 at 6:24pm

What a wonderful cake! I've just been reading up on the flexible RI. Thanks for the link to this pic. I can't wait to try it on my nephew's spiderman cake coming up!!

ToniRod 2/13/11 at 8:29pm

I agree - such an amazing cake and thank you for the details as well!!! So helpful!

Sweetgrl1963 2/14/11 at 4:53am

love this....could you give me a little more details on the flexible royal icing? did you start with the bag of wilton pre made gum paste mix? and add the water to it. I need to make a spiderman cake and thought this would work well. thanks

FullHouse 2/14/11 at 5:33am

I used WIlton's powdered gum paste mix, the pre made gum paste would not work for this. There is a ton of info on this technique in these threads: (...) and (...)

FullHouse 2/14/11 at 5:34am

The links to the threads didn't work, just search the forums for "Using Wilton gumpaste mix for flexible royal icing " and "great new royal icing idea! " I love this technique, is SO easy to do.

colcy 2/14/11 at 11:02am

is the flexible RI the same as SugarVeil?

FullHouse 2/14/11 at 12:00pm

No Sugarveil is a different product, and much more expensive. This dries hard and will crack if not handled carefully.