My question about color flow is: does my picture need to be the reverse image of what I want, like in a FBCT? Or would I be looking at the top of the piece?

You don't need to reverse it

Thank you for the quick response

Now I can go work on my piece

I love color flow, and it is nice you don't have to reverse it. The only problem I have with it sometimes is it breaking while I try to put it on the cake. Hope you are gonna make a back-up piece.

Please enlighten me! What is color flow? TIA

I did a color flow piece directly on a cake with royal icing, it's in my galleries it is the clown cake

color flow is the similar (maybe the same thing as) flooding, usually done on cookies.

eureka!!! color flow instead of FBCT--what a great idea! wish i would have heard that earlier. color flow is also a good thing because it gets hard and then you can write on it with color safe food writing markers....just letting my imagination run.

Thanks...

I never thought of putting it directly on the cake. I was taught in my wilton class to do it on wax paper etc...but the other way would definitely stop the "breaking" problem. Its SO disappointing to go through all that work just to have it crumble when you are ready to use it.

Ah. From what I gather, color flow is just a different term for run-out. Thanks!

Notjustcake, how do you do it directly on the cake? dont you have to have an outline of some sort to put on the cake to go by? Im learning colorflow this month in wilton course 2 class...made my poor lil bird and he looked retarded..lmao..i threw him away after class..gonna make another one for my final cake of class..

from what I understand colorflow is similar to royal icing but it dries harder, supposedly less breakage....but if I listen to what you folks are saying....

oh, just to clarify, its a product from Wilton.

Thanks for all the input everyone

I made my piece was proud of my work, unfortunately I did break it as I was putting it on the cake .... OOPS

And nope I did not make a backup piece, lesson learned

I made it for my mom and her husband and they liked it anyway. I'll attach a pic, they are huge Dunkin Donuts coffee drinkers!