Any Tips For Dealing With Cake Dummies????
Decorating By Julie_S Updated 23 Apr 2010 , 5:17pm by indydebi
Hi,
I found a cake supply place that carries the foam cake dummies. Is it just a matter of icing the dummy with buttercreme and then decorating, then wiping if all off and using the dummy again? Are there any tips you might have for preserving the dummy? I want to use it for practice. Thanks. Do you like the round ones more than the rectangular ones?
At this point I"m dealing only with buttercream. I'm not putting fondant on the dummies yet.
Julie
Take some sandpaper and sand the edges down so that the fondant won't rip.
You can cover it in clear packing tape to help make it easier to get the fondant off.
Some people just actually the dummy in the dishwasher and run it in just hot water (no soap).
Hope this helps. (I definitely prefer round).
Hi,
I found a cake supply place that carries the foam cake dummies. Is it just a matter of icing the dummy with buttercreme and then decorating, then wiping if all off and using the dummy again? Are there any tips you might have for preserving the dummy? I want to use it for practice. Thanks. Do you like the round ones more than the rectangular ones?
At this point I"m dealing only with buttercream. I'm not putting fondant on the dummies yet.
Julie
Yes, that's all you have to do. If you've been working on the dummy for awhile and the buttercream has hardened, you can either break it off in pieces, scrape it off (carefully) with a spatula or just run in under hot water for a few minutes until it's all dissolved. Make sure the dummy is completely clean, because ants can be attracted to any residual sugar (especially if you use royal icing!).
Also, if you ever use fondant on a cake dummy, it can be reused. Just peel it off, soften it in the microwave and use it again for another dummy. Just something to keep in mind 
Take some sandpaper and sand the edges down so that the fondant won't rip.
You can cover it in clear packing tape to help make it easier to get the fondant off.
Some people just actually the dummy in the dishwasher and run it in just hot water (no soap).
Hope this helps. (I definitely prefer round).
cylstrial,
How can one put something like a cake dummy in the dishwashwer without it disintegrating? The kind I got are like pressed white material. Are there more solid kinds of dummies? I would love to see plastic hard dummies.
Hermione
Take some sandpaper and sand the edges down so that the fondant won't rip.
You can cover it in clear packing tape to help make it easier to get the fondant off.
Some people just actually the dummy in the dishwasher and run it in just hot water (no soap).
Hope this helps. (I definitely prefer round).
cylstrial,
The kind of dummy I got is just like the one in this video:
Do they refer to this kind as "foam" or is that something else? Can you put the kind I have in the dishwasher?
Thanks
Julie
How can one put something like a cake dummy in the dishwashwer without it disintegrating? The kind I got are like pressed white material. Are there more solid kinds of dummies? I would love to see plastic hard dummies.
Hermione
Because it's styrofoam, not sugar. Don't worry .. they hold up fine. I ran mine thru my commerical dishwasher all the time (which gets way hotter than a home dishwasher) with no problems at all. They last forever.
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