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??? Is it buttercream or fondant??

post #1 of 10
3/16/13 at 8:09pm
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A potential customer wants this cake. Is it iced in buttercream or fondant? I am assuming it iced in fondant with fondant tweets/small sticks. I could be wrong. Your thoughts? Can this be done in all buttercream?

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4f9hbq_46cs9f28fs
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post #2 of 10
3/16/13 at 8:21pm

Not sure how the pic was made but looks like you could do a pretty similar look with buttercream, maybe rounding the top edge of the cakes to round them, then doing the random squiggles with a round tip.

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post #3 of 10
3/16/13 at 8:25pm

Could be both. I would say iced in buttercream with fondant lines. Or buttercream and buttercream piping. 

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post #4 of 10
3/17/13 at 6:26am

Looks like fondant bc of the rounded tops, with RI piping?

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post #5 of 10
3/17/13 at 7:54am
Looks like fondant to me..
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post #6 of 10
3/17/13 at 8:11am

 RF with piping.

 

Reminds me of some sci-fi horror film.

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post #7 of 10
3/17/13 at 8:32am
What's rf?
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post #8 of 10
3/17/13 at 8:47am

Rolled fondant

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post #9 of 10
3/17/13 at 9:24am
Oh ok thanks icon_smile.gif so normal fondant... That's what I thought
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post #10 of 10
3/17/13 at 11:12am

The rounded shoulders of each tier suggest fondant, though it could be done in buttercream, but the raised lines can be either.  A piped line would be easier, and the breaks in the line suggest piping.  Fondant lines would require at least three hands, two to use the extruder and apply the lines to the cake and one to turn the cake on a turntable.

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