I've had a request for this coming Saturday do do a small cake for about 15-20 people. The theme is reptiles. After looking here I got a few ideas.

What I was wondering, if I could do is make a snake out of fondant to wrap around the cake. How would I go about making the snake look realistic?
I'm just wondering color & how to make the skin scaly

Sorry I'm not very artistic so any help is apreciated

ooh, this'll be fun

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here is a link to cakes with snakes on them, PM the person and I am sure they will be willing to help. Good luck


http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=snake


this cake has fondant snakes on a sheet cake

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=snake&cat=0&pos=0&search=snake

Someone on this site (I am sorry I can't remember who) had posted a tutorial on a dragon and it was amazing, but the dragon had scales. If I remember correctly, she used the open end of a tip to imprint overlapping scales. Not sure if I am making any sense, but maybe search in the gallery for dragons and you will see what I mean. Good luck!

I've heard of using regular circle icing tip (like a #6) to press into the fondant to make scales. It would take a lot of time, but this is the only thing I know of. Hope you get some better help!

I did the snakes on the sheet cake. I used dk brown, white, lt brown, and black. I started by rolling a tube from the dk brown, and a skinny one from white. I then rolled them together to make the white belly. I then rolled a thin tube from dk brown, covered it with a thick pc of lt brown, and then wrapped that with a thin cover of black. I rolled all of that into a thin tube and sliced it into thin slices. I attached the slices to the dk brown and white for the markings. I formed the head by pinching the tube and then laid them to dry i the shape I wanted. You could make any size by modifying the size of the body. I hope you understand all of this. I am not good at explaining things, I can show you better! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Do you think color mist would work for the snake or should I just color the fondant? The snake probably won't be eaten.

Any ideas for fangs? I'd like to do the mouth open so the fangs can be seen.

Thank for all your help!

does this have to be any certain kind of snake? Maybe you could do a king cobra! That'd be so cool

I took a bar mat and rolled it on the fondant for the impression and then just rolled the fondant on istself kinda like a curl. Put what ever details on the head you want and put the seam of the snake facing down on the Cake. Hope this helps.

I used the natural colored Wilton Fondant. I already had it, which was a good thing because this was a last minute order!

just a thought, but could you maybe sponge paint coloring onto the rolled snake shape to give it sort of that motled, scaley look? Haven't tried it, but that would be my first guess and easiest way of making it looked scaled.

Valerie

I just watched a tutorial on another thread and it used the basketweave impression roller (marble tutorial, but also included the basketweave roller) and it made me wonder if you could use this and go one direction, turn 90 degrees and roll again. That might be a simple way to achieve kindof a scale look, don't you think?...I don't know, just a thought.