How To Attach Gumpaste Bow To Buttercream Cake

MissCakeCrazy Posted 24 Aug 2009 , xi:53am

I accept done a fondant and gumpaste bow recently and want to try a design with a bow attached to each side of iv tiers. I can't imagine it always sticking on every bit its then heavy. If I were to put majestic icing at the back, it will fall of straight away. How practice I practice it?

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2SchnauzerLady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 12:09pm

I would like to know, also! Clicking on scout for replies!!

lapazlady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 12:16pm

You might try using a "gum" fabricated of mucilage paste and a bit of h2o. You may take to back up the bow with hidden spaghetti pieces. Use ane hand to place the bow and some other to poke in a short piece of spaghetti in 3 places (loop left, correct and center). HTH

Jaimelt76 Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 12:35pm

I used melted chocolate and held the bow until the chocolate set up. It was my first time with a bow and no idea how to do it and this worked.

lapazlady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 12:37pm

Melted chocolate is an excellent "glue". And, for certain, you have to hold the bow in place until the chocolate is set.

2SchnauzerLady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 12:54pm

I have one to do and they have specified no chocolate - not fifty-fifty white chocolate due to a family member's allergy. What are some other options?

lapazlady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , one:24pm

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Originally Posted by TNTFundraiser

I have one to practice and they have specified no chocolate - not even white chocolate due to a family unit member's allergy. What are another options?

Have a bit of gum paste and mash it around in a tiny bit of water, you lot want a paste. This will do the job. You may have to support (spaghetti sticks) the bow for a while, to allow the glue to harden up enough to support the weight of the bow. HTH

2SchnauzerLady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 1:44pm

lapazlady - will the gumpaste glue stick to BC? The block volition exist BC with fondant decorations. The fondant will be in narrow stripes.

addietx Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 2:07pm

You can utilize a skewer, toothpicks etc in a place where a tiny pigsty volition not evidence. You lot can have them out afterwards you lot feel that information technology has "bonded" with the BC or go out them in for transportation and so take them out. If the bow is extremely heavy leave the supports in and tell the block cutter to take them out before serving.

2SchnauzerLady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 2:16pm

Thanks, Addietx and lapazlady

addietx Posted 24 Aug 2009 , 2:17pm

use a fiddling BC every bit glue, concur in place for a couple of seconds then place skewer, toothpick etc as support - take out before serving

lapazlady Posted 24 Aug 2009 , three:51pm

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lapazlady - volition the gumpaste mucilage stick to BC? The cake will exist BC with fondant decorations. The fondant will be in narrow stripes.

Utilise buttercream for your stickum. Pocket-size decorations will stay on merely fine.

Malakin Posted 25 Aug 2009 , 12:56am

I attached fondant and gumpaste to fondant covered cake with melted chocolate, but, I also attached some pretty heavy pieces to a bc cake with a piddling tylose powder mixed in h2o. It's stickier than gumpaste glue and worked really practiced for me.

The_Sugar_Fairy Posted 25 Aug 2009 , 1:05am

I'm curious besides. Would imperial icing work okay?

tonedna Posted 25 Aug 2009 , 1:12am

The first thing I would say is make certain that your fondant or gumpaste is non besides thick. That volition aid with the bow not being too heavy.

Over Fondant the chocolate works well. As for buttercream yous demand more than support. If you lot let your bow dry beforehand, brand holes with a toothpick in an surface area in the middle where is hidden so y'all can insert toothpicks
through that pigsty into the cake, then seal it with buttercream or majestic icing.

I exercise my bows last infinitesimal so I can only insert the toothpicks terminal minute and fix the shape of the bow every bit I work with it.
But some people go intimidated by this.
Expert luck!
Edna

catlharper Posted 25 Aug 2009 , ane:33am

I only desire to say thank you for all those who replied..I'1000 not the poster but am learning more every twenty-four hours only by reading the questions and the replies! Putting in toothpicks is such a "duh" idea that I almost actually smacked my head when I read it! Well, OF COURSE! LOL! I'1000 planning on several side bows for a cake coming upwardly in February (daughters b'day) and now I have the "tools" to practice it right! Thanx!

ceshell Posted 25 Aug 2009 , six:25am

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Originally Posted by TNTFundraiser

I take i to do and they have specified no chocolate - non even white chocolate due to a family fellow member'due south allergy. What are some other options?

For what it's worth, I but bought Nestle white chocolate chips the other day...today I looked at the bag and realized they are NOT "white chocolate fries" simply rather "White Morsels". The difference? There is NO chocolate production in them whatever. (I'k taking them back to the shop tomorrow lol).

White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, which is a true cocoa bean byproduct, so therein would lie the allergy. Nestle white morsels are fabricated with palm kernel oil. You might want to investigate if that makes them safe for people westward/chocolate allergies - I cannot imagine why it wouldn't since they aren't chocolate!

Anyhow you accept many other possible solutions but I wanted to betoken that out.

CrazyBaker28 Posted 26 Aug 2009 , vii:49pm

Technically, no white chocolate is considered true chocolate.

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