wahooooooo!! just recv'd my butterfly and wavy lines sheets!!! I am going to LOVE the rest of this day!!

CRAP! I used all but a tsp or so of the knox for a stupid Knox Blox recipe..(nasty) for the boys...now I need to wait until they wake up to run to the store for more..arghh

I don't have the book but it sounds great. I've been using the geltain to make jewels. I just pour them in the jewel molds (the ones from CK for hard candy) and they look pretty good. I'm having fun playing with this stuff, can't wait to make the bows like you all have done.

Hello, can anyone tell me where to order the sheets for the bow and butterfly to make them out of gelatin?. Thanks.

Thank you bobwonderbuns, you're answer was really fast!!. I'll try to buy at this address, I'm from Venezuela. Thanks again.

after 43 pages i read about half skimmed the others..
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here is my ??

has anyone made their own molds or impressions for the butterflies... i have food grade silicon and clay.. was thinking about making my own


has anyone done this? any thoughts other wise?

Sure you could try it! I think the secret to the gelatin working well, is to not get it too thick.....the thinner the better. If you do try it, please post back here with the results!

That's right, if you pour too much gelatin in it will mold. I use all sorts of molds though I haven't used my homemade molds yet....hmmm. gelatin lace, might try that next Let us know how it goes.

Wow, they are very nice!! how would they hold up to warm weather?

I am not sure that you could make your own molds out of silicone. I am not sure if the gelatin would release. I know Dianne and Michelle had problems when the manifacture they had make the sheets changed the material the sheets were made of. The gelatin would not release. But good luck and let us know.

claren - once they are dry, they hold up just fine. (They do not do well in rain however!) I made quite a few last summer, and I stored them in the styrofoam sandwich type containers, they held perfectly. No wilting or anything....the humid conditions here in Ohio did't phase them.

Thank you for the info. I can't wait to try it.

THANKS SO MUCH

butterfly released well but took forever to dry and was about half the size of the mold... kinda reminded me of a shrinky dink lol

so i used a butterfly stamp and food grade silicon it worked pretty good.. think i will get the impression mats though.. was fun and very easy to do

thank you all for the great tips

I have a few questions:

1. I've seen it mentioned here a few times that you can use the molds found in the clay section of craft stores. My understanding is that they are not food safe and shouldn't be used for this type of thing. Is that true? I have seen beautiful molds for clay, but have been afraid to use them. I sure would love to!

2. It's been mentioned that the gelatin designs don't taste good. Do you tell your clients to remove them before cutting the cake?

3. Since they don't taste good, if you put them on a cake, does the "bad flavor" transfer to the cake?

Thanks so much!!

Thanks bobwonderbuns, for the response and the welcome! From reading the posts on here, you're always so helpful and it's very appreciated!

I guess the molds for clay that I'm referring to are more like mats, although I have seen the deeper molds for clay that I'd love to use, as well. Hobby Lobby has a beautiful chantilly lace mat for clay that I've wanted to use to imprint on fondant and buttercream for ages, but I've avoided it because of the food safety thing. It's much less expensive than the one my baking supply store sells that's made for food ($8 compared with $35!), and much prettier too! I hope it would be ok to use on fondant and buttercream. I suppose it would be ok to use with chocolate, too, right?

Another question about the gelatin "figures"...What is their texture once they are dry? Are they hard, gummy, still pliable? In other words, are they even something someone would WANT to eat, if they tasted good? Would the texture be odd mixed with a bite of cake? Some people on here have said they wouldn't cut well with a knife, so I doubt the side of a fork would be any better. So how would a person go about eating one? Just pop the entire butterfly in their mouth? LOL.

I've thought about trying the gelatin mixed with sugar-free jello that I've seen mentioned here, so that they don't taste bad. (I'd hate for someone to eat the plain gelatin ones, even if I warned them not to, and then get the impression that my cakes taste bad!) The problem is, I need the gelatin to be orange for a cake I'm working on, but I don't want it to taste like oranges. That would ruin the overall flavor of the cake just to make these decorations edible. So maybe I'd be better off using the plain gelatin recipe, dying it orange, and telling the client not to eat them.

Sorry to ramble! Lots of thoughts going through my head about the best way to use this.

Yes you can use these mats with chocolate. I'm not sure if Di and Michaelle are going to be including that in the second book or not.

The gelatin butterflies and poinsettia in my pix are dry but pliable. You could eat them, but it's not like a jiggler. Just pop it in your mouth and go!

When I gave them the butterfly cake, I told them the butterflies are unflavored and don't taste good. Of course, having a little boy mentality, the guys started snorfing them down much to their chagrin! But nobody had the impression the cake tasted bad, and in fact I got a lot of compliments on it.

The best thing to do is get the book and the kit, read this entire thread and then play with it. Take notes, lots of them. Then come back and tell us all about it!

Will do bobwonderbuns. I'll be buying the book and kits soon. And I've read the entire thread. All. 44. Pages!

Now get your stuff and post the things you make!! (aren't you glad there isn't a test after reading it all??)

So I'm in love with gelatin bows and finally got all of the impression mats. My first kink came today when I could NOT get a bow to attach to a fondant cake. I tried a dab of water, hot gelatin, piping gel.....augh! BC cakes are no issue but any tips for attaching to fondant?

What about some royal or buttercream? I have only put them on buttercream cakes too, so I haven't had that issue yet.

Kell, it SEEMS like I remember reading that they don't attach well to fondant, but I might have read that about something else.

Thanks....I thought of BC or royal but I did one of the clear bows with disco dust edges and I didn't want the icing to show through but may have to. All the above things did was make my merlot colored fondant stick to my pretty clear bow and then the bow popped off. Probably didn't help I was putting it on the lid to an open gift box cake and the lid was propped on the side of the box.

Thannks for all the wonderful information!!!

When I did the gelatin poinsettia in my pix, we put it on a gumpaste plaque with a blob of fondant and pushed it into the fondant. If you could put a small piece on the bottom of the the bow to push in, maybe you could attach the bow that way.