I have seen the staff from Charm City Cakes (from the TV show Ace of Cakes) use some sort of masking tape on their fondant covered cakes to help them with piping and decorating in straight lines around their cakes. The tape is easily removed without damaging the fondant. Is there a masking tape made for fondant that is food safe? I would love to use one since I am so bad at keeping a straight line also. Does anyone know? I googled fondant masking tape but I did not get any results.
There's a blue painter's tape that is specifically for delicate surfaces:
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=63186-98-2080-1&lpage=none&cm_mmc=search_gps-_-gps-_-gps-_-3M%20Painter's%20Tape%20for%20Delicate%20Surfaces%20Blue%201%22%20x%2060%20yds
It works pretty well on dry fondant when you need to mask off an area for painting or airbrushing. If the fondant is dry, it doesn't get marked or retain any tape residue.
Rae
You know, there are just a lot of grey areas when it comes to unconventional ways of decorating.
Nobody makes "food safe" masking tape.
It becomes a judgement call for each decorator.
My personal rule of thumb is that incidental contact is OK: will it be used on an edible for a few seconds or minutes and then removed--like masking tape would be? Then I have no problem using it.
Would I cover a cake board in it and let the cake sit on it until it was served? No.
Will anyone get sick or die from having a piece of painter's tape having touched their cake? No.
To each his/her own.
Rae
I thought of painter's tape but why would they use something that isn't food safe? ...or is it?
My guess is that it is not food safe, since it is made to go on walls and not cake.
People use non food safe stuff all the time, sometimes because they don't know or think about it, other times cause they feel it will be okay.
Thank you, the one I saw on Ace of Cakes was also blue so they probably use the same one. I have seen another tape that said the same thing (about not leaving any residue when removed). I don't think they would be allowed to call it food safe but let each baker make their own decision. I will definitely try it, just on a piece of leftover fondant, to see. Thanks.
Maybe I am naive but why wouldn't it be food safe? Ypur aren't actually chewing it up and eating it.....it goes on....comes off......
But seriuosly for future reference what would make it un-food safe in some opinions?
Maybe some kind of chemical reaction, or maybe an actual chemical in the tape that is not meant to be in contact with food......
Maybe I am naive but why wouldn't it be food safe? Ypur aren't actually chewing it up and eating it.....it goes on....comes off......
But seriuosly for future reference what would make it un-food safe in some opinions?
Just like Madge said.
Okay that's what I was thinking...just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something!
butchers tape, do you mean what they use to wrap meat in paper then tape it? That is not touching the food.
What about using the Medical grade paper tape? It is not made for eating but you can put it on your skin.
a thought on this idea for you is to use plain cash register tape -- the white rolls of paper that will wrap around the whole tier -- you can place the bottom edge securely against the cake board flat up against the cake and cut any pattern on the top edge or use it as is to block off sections -- not like tape that sticks/seals/adheres but you can block off to that extant -- really handy for some applications --
you do have to be careful with some kinds of paper though because some of it is treated with formaldehyde (carbonless copy paper) not that there's enough to cause harm necessarily but just that you always want to err on the side of safety
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