I have been asked to do a cake in the shaped of a celtic knotwork tattoo. It will be cut out of a 12x18 sheet cake. Here is my question...With all these small cutout areas, what would be the best icing to cover the cake with? They like anything & gave me free go on this. I was thinking maybe a poured ganache but wasn't sure exactly how to go about covering this monster? Any ideas are more than welcome. lol

BellaRosa

edited for my horrid grammar so late at night

You could use bc and a small spatula to get it in the small places.

I think the poured fondant or a ganache would be the easiest way to go. It is going to be really hard and time consuming otherwise.

I agree--poured fondant or ganache would be the easiest. Please post a pic when you finish it, I would love to see it!

LIsa

Thx guys. Dodi- I considered doing the bc, but some of the areas are going to be VERY hard to get into. This thing is so twisting I almost didn't take it.

I am going to scan in the picture & then print it onto 2 pages so it will be big enough to use the max amount of the cake. The couple each has half the design on a wrist so that when they put their wrists together the design joins. I am going to do a double layer vanilla cake with raspberry buttercream filling.

Anyone have a good white chocolate ganache recipe & tips on the best way to make it pourable? I was thinking to tint it red and use lusterdust to do shading work.

THX Again!
BellaRosa

OK, this is not carving, but I saw a cake by Tuggy, and it made me think. How about a square cake or whatever shape and roll fondant into long snakes, for lack of better word, and shape the knot ontop of cake and lusster dust it or whatever to make it stand out. Check out Tuggy's cake.