461 days ago
by PeggyDoesCake |
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How to Cover a Square Cake Drum – (12” or smaller)
Materials Needed:
Cake drum (I always use ½” thick)
12” x 12” sheet scrapbook paper
Roll of contact paper
Scissors
STEP 1Trim your craft paper to the size of your cake board. If you’re using a 12” inch square cake board and a 12” x 12” inch scrapbook sheet (like I’m using today), you don’t have to do any trimming! Awesome!
STEP 2Cut your contact paper about 6 inches bigger ...
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413 days ago
by RoyalBakery |
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Just a quick note (hopefully) with a few hints on how to create a seamless join when you want to have more than one colour of fondant covering your cake, with no overlaps.
1. Start by calculating the size fondant you need to cover the top half of the cake (in my case, the blue). I wanted the blue to come halfway down the sides of the cake so my fondant needed to be 7” (the top of the cake) + 2.25” (the cake was 4.5” high) x 2 (for each side) = 11.5” diameter.
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