I see a lot of bottom base boards that appear to be covered with fondant. Or are those covered with royal icing? Can I get some feedback on how one goes about covering a baseboard with fondant? And how do you keep it from shifting when you place the cakes on it?

I have not done it very much but this is my experience.

I put down some piping gel on the cake board then just laid the MMF over it and let it drape down the sides. Then I just trimmed off the excess with a pizza cutter. I had absolutely no shifting. I suppose water would work also.

If you look in my photos, there is a 4th of July "Uncle Sam's Hat" where the rim of the hat is actually a cake circle covered with MMF.

HTH

Hope this will help:

http://www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com/techniques.cfm?cat=4

I cover most of my boards with fondant and use only water it sticks to the board. Make sure you do your board a few days before you need it so the fondant hardens and you won't have finger marks when putting the cake on it. I also attach a ribbon on the edge.

I also cover all my boards with fondant. I usually take a ball of fondant and place it in the middle of dampened board (usually just wipe my slightly wet hand over the board) and roll it out directly on to the board - you can get it quite thin this way without wasting lots of fondant. I've attached this picture because I covered the board in fondant and then cut out daisy shapes and filled in the holes with white daisy fondants, I then rolled the rolling pin over the board once more to flatten it all down and it gives a sort of wallpaper look.

Wow! Emma- that looks great!!!!!

cool never thought of rolling the fondant right on the board guess I'll be doing that from now on.
Thanks love your board with the dasies.

WOW that is a GREAT idea, and looks so easy ! Emma, beautiful cake there with the daisies! Love it!

Ok no more covering my cakeboards with special foil or scrapbooking paper lol

I've used water to wet my board then covered with fondant. The rolling it out on the board idea is awsome. I'll give that a try next time...thanks for the hint.

I did one that I really liked...it's my dora cake. I cut strips of different colors and put them around the board. I then put lace around the edge of the board. Another board I liked was one of my guitar cakes. After I covered the board in yellow I used a textured rolling pin to imprint it. I've attached my dora cake (I haven't resized the guitar cake to fit yet). I do agree whith what has been mentioned....it's good to do this a few days in advance.

Good Luck.

How thick should the fondant on the baseboard be? 2-3mm?

As thin as you can get away with really - I reckon mine is usually about 2mm? Any thinner and you start seeing the board through and much thicker feels like such a waste of fondant.

Thanks emmascakes, that sounds good to me.