Butterflies On Wire - Sticking Out Of Cake
Decorating By jreimer Updated 9 Jun 2007 , 4:16am by modthyrth
I'm making a baby shower cake next weekend, with the theme of butterflies.
I'd like to add butterflies on a wire to the top tier of a cake, so the butterflies look like they're flying around.
1) Where do I get the wire, what kind of wire is it?
2) How do you adhere the butterflies to the wire?
Use floral wire. Attach the gumpaste body to the wire by dipping the hooked wire into water before inserting into gumpaste.
Here is a link where someone posted how they did their butterflies on wires:
http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-34753-butterflies.html+wire
In my gallery, I have a picture of a cake I did this past weekend. I didn't make my butterflies out of fondant/gumpaste - they were paper. I used floral wire and tape. I tried to make fondant butterflies, so I can tell you what NOT to do. 
Don't make them too heavy and when you put them on the wire, bend the wire so the don't spin. My butterflies wound up spinning and hanging upside down. I didn't think about it when I glued the wire (with fondant) and so the wire was straight, thus the butterflies spun down. DUMB, DUMB, DUMB! I couldn't believe I didnt' think about it. But, the paper butterflies worked fine and the cake was great. It's the topsy turvy one. HTH
Here's a link that I found of a cake that just got posted that I love the wiring on...
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=622283
is this floral wire or thicker? (I ask because the star look thick, and they'd be heavier - so I think my butterflies would be ok) I'm actually okay with it being noticeable, so thicker is okay.
Would you get the floral wire at the floral shop? I'm not near a Michaels...
Just wanted to add this link to the post. It is a tutorial on how someone attached stars to wire. Might help out some=) Jen
http://www.ladycakes.com./hearts_and_stars_on_wire.htm
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