I am making a gold birthday cake. I wanted to include water hazard, maybe with a small ball or two in it.

I was thinking of using tinited piping gel. Should I frost the area under the water? or will the tinted gel have enough color to find the cake? Will small fondant balls fall apart in the gel?

Or do you have a better idea.

Thanks for your help

I have always used piping gel for water...and I think it works great........the fondant???? I'm not sure, I've put piping gel over fondant to create a waterfall before, but I don't know if it made it start deteriorating.....I know I tried to use cotton candy for the "mist" at the bottom of the waterfall and it just disappeared into the piping gel LOL maybe you'll be ok if you let the piping gel set up a little on the cake first and then add the balls on top