Edible Pearls On Mmf Covered Cake
Decorating By mariavictoria Updated 3 Feb 2007 , 3:31am by DianaMarieMTV
How do you attached edible pearls on MMF covered cake? I've tried attaching edible pearls as soon I've covered my cake with MMF, but pearls keep on falling off the MMF. I tried using thin RI to attach the pearls but my cake came out messy looking because you can see small glob if RI here and there on the cake.
I had that problem when I first started playing around with pearls.
I've only used them on regular fondant and used p i p i n g gel and a pair of tweezers. Dip the pearl just barely holding it with the tweezers and place where you want it on the cake. Works good!
Light corn syrup will also work good. A fellow CC'r mentioned it in a recent post and I used it today to apply some chocolate roses to a SatinIce fondant cake. Just brushed it on with a small artist's paintbrush.
Hope this helps some.
How do you attached edible pearls on MMF covered cake? I've tried attaching edible pearls as soon I've covered my cake with MMF, but pearls keep on falling off the MMF. I tried using thin RI to attach the pearls but my cake came out messy looking because you can see small glob if RI here and there on the cake.
are they really big and heavy? and are you placing them at the base or on the sides? royal icing should do the trick. if its on the sides, you may have to hold them for a moment before you let go so the icing can set. at the base, a brush of water works for smaller ones, royal or piping gel also.
Ladies, thank you for responding to my question. I am going to try all the techniques you have suggested and see which one will work for me. The edible pearls i used last time were 4mm in size. I put them randomly on the side of the cake. The cake came out looking messy after attaching the pearls (because you could see the RI i used to glue the pearls) that I ended up doing the "spackled" effect to camouflage the imperfection.
You can also put some gumpaste or even just gumtex in water, let it sit until dissolved. Works like super glue for me. Everytime I have a bit of left over gumpaste, I throw it in the bottle and it works great, I use an empty babyfoodjar and a fine brush to just put a very thin layer of glue where I need it
Ladies, thank you for responding to my question. I am going to try all the techniques you have suggested and see which one will work for me. The edible pearls i used last time were 4mm in size. I put them randomly on the side of the cake. The cake came out looking messy after attaching the pearls (because you could see the RI i used to glue the pearls) that I ended up doing the "spackled" effect to camouflage the imperfection.
it sounds like you definatly need a stong adhesive if you are placing them on the side. there seem to be two issues. 1. the extra visible icing. and 2. time.... I would suggest like what moydear77 said, using watered down royal icing . this way it is still a strong adhesive but if you take the pearl in tweezers and dip one side of it, you wont have a huge glob that squeezes out and stays visible. then you'll need to place them and hold them up for a minute until it starts to set on its own. in my experience, if i use water , piping gel, water/gumpaste glue etc...its just to liquidy and really needs to be held in place for too long and takes awhile to dry, and seems to be more for FLAT decorations or placing things together like modeling a figure, but not for placing pearls on the sides of a cake. just my opinion.
I'm still realtively new but the only thing I have ever used is flavoring .. Almond is great but depending on the cake you could try others... and a LONG set of medical tweezers.. good luck
Maybe poke a small indent in the cake for it to have a little more surface are to grab onto. Just like a small corsage pin hole. That's what I did for the daisies on my present cake and it helped a lot.
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