I have a wedding cake ordered and I am a little concerned with the bottom tier. It appears to me that this is a type of cornelli lace. I cannot, however, decide if this would be better done with buttercream or fondant. My concern is that if I do this with fondant, it might make the cake very heavy. Any advise or opinions is welcome. Thank you!![/img]

I would use buttercream. Kind of looks like they piped buttercream on fondant and them airburshed the entire layer gold.

That's what I thought, too. Probably very stiff buttercream. Do you think a tip 12 would work?

They look like fondant worms to me

This cake would look so much better with a Greek Key pattern on the bottom tier. Maybe you're wondering why I'd pair a Greek design with an Egyptian pyramid??? Well, Greek and Egyptian art are both very precise... you never see random swirls and curly-Qs. You might see repeating scroll patterns or curved floral lines, but nothing as horribly random as those fondant snakes!

Greek Key pattern images on Google:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&biw=925&bih=589&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=greek+key+pattern&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=greek+key

CWR41, I think you're right. How would you go about getting that kind of greek design to look very clean cut on the cake?

I like the fondant 'ropes', I just feel they need to be smaller and maybe more patterned.

I think it'd definitely look better with smaller ropes.

Greek and Egyptian art are both very preciseããã
That's really really amazing....

Definitely looks like fondant pushed out of an extruder into ropes.