I'm looking for suggestions for decorating a disco ball cake. I was thinking of covering the cake with gray BC icing and placing gray fondant squares over the entire cake. I would dust the squares with luster dust. Do you think that would look like the relective surface of the ball?

that's exactlly what I was thinking.......are you using like silver luster dust.....I think that would look cool!

Sounds fun! That's what I'd probably do. Maybe bake one of the 3-D ball cakes. Cover it with BC and then do like mosaic pieces in fondant which you can paint in silver luster and can even sprinkle edible glitter or silver sanding sugar on the pieces.

I'm going to use the 3-d Ball cake to make it. That's one of the only shaped pans I've never used. Is it easy to keep it on the cake board, because I have to walk the cake to the party. I don't want it rolling all around. Is it safer to dowel it right to the board?

Don't worry it' won't roll. It'll stay on just fine. Just put a glob of icing under your base cake to hold it there good. the weight will keep it down. If you feel more comfortable, just cut a small flat part on the bottom layer but I've made it before and it was not necessary.

Get some Disco Sparkles also to dust over it, they really do glitter. But keep them in a separate room to anything you don't want to sparkle because just like ordinary glitter you will get it everywhere for weeks!!!!

disco sparkles??????/ I've never even heard of those......do they sparkle like real glitter?????? that cake glitter isn't very glittery IMO.....have to look for disco sparkles

I've done a disco ball before...it was really neat when it was all finished. One thing I did differently was instead of using gray fondant I used white...to make the little mosaic like squares. I iced the ball itself a very light gray first. I tried the squares with the grey fondant first, but even with the silver luster dust painted on, it was just way too dark looking. So I just used the white I had to make the squares and then painted them with the silver luster dust. MUCH better!! The silver was much more silver then and just brighter all together. And those disco sparkles are really neat! They'd be a great addition. Good luck with it and please do post a picture when you're done!

I'm suppose to be doing a disco ball in july....I was gonna use the hologram pixie dust...what is disco sparkles...and where can it be purchased..