I have just agreed to make a wedding cake and I have a few questions. She wants a 3 tiered stacked cake covered in fondant with white designs on each layer. The designs are each a different. One tier has dots on it, the other has lines and the other has the quilted look with dots in the cross. Can anyone tell me how to put the quilted looking lines into the fondant and do I make the dots on the lines with royal icing? Also, they want passionfruit filling. It needs to be able to sit out, should I just mix passionfruit jelly with some buttercream, should I try to find passionfruit flavoring to add to buttercream? Any help would be appreciated

congrats on your first wedding cake. The quilted look in done with an impression mat i got mine online. Some people do them other ways. But that is the only i can do it.For the dots you could make edible fondant pearls. I am not sure about the filling hopefully someone else can help with that.

The passionfruit ingredients are hard to find. I know some have used actual passionfruit juice in their filling, but I don't know what recipe they used. I don't know of any company that makes passionfruit flavoring specifically for cakes, but you can use the syrup many places use to flavor their coffees. You would probably have to order it online - DaVinci carries that flavor. There is also the alcohol Alize which is a passion fruit liqueur, but only if you want a little zip to your cake . Good luck!!

i make the quilting with a sewing tracing wheel and a triangle ruler, just keep it uniform and it is pretty easy

Hi,

There are places that you can buy frozen passion fruit puree. This is one place I found online

http://www.lepicerie.com/customer/home.php?cat=287&page=2

Just google passion fruit puree and there are several places...

Then you could find a recipe and make a cooked jelly like filling or use it to flavor a cream filling or combine with buttercream.

Good luck.