When creating a fun novelty or themed cake, one of my favourite things to do is theme the board to the cake. This really finishes the cake off and gives it a professional finish.
In this weeks tutorial I’m showing you how you can cover your cake boards to look like marble, metal and grass. These are 3 really fun styles which would work with a variety of cake themes. You could also use these same techniques to create fondant for your cakes too!
Click below to watch the step by step tutorial for all 3 of these techniques ⇩
Marbled Fondant
One of my favourite fondant techniques for covering your cake board or for covering your cakes is using gel colours to make marbled fondant. Marble is so subtle and looks perfect for so many themes. It’s great for novelty cakes as it looks like you have placed your cake on a marble surface, really finishing off the cake, making the board part of the whole thing.
The key to creating marbled fondant is to stop before all of your colour has combined. As you roll it out this gives you these streaks of colour, making it look so natural.
Metal Cake Board
Sometimes you may want a more industrial looking cake board to finish off your cake. This metallic diamond sheet design really shimmers in the light, just like if it were made of a real sheet of metal. Covered in lots of little diamond fondant shapes, you’ll see in the tutorial how to make them all exactly the same size, with only a circle cutter.
What really finishes this cake board off is the lustre dust. Starting with a lustre dust mixed with dipping solution, you get such a shimmer. Then buff in a lighter silver and a darker charcoal colour to add some depth.
Edible Grass
There are so many cake designs that would look perfect sitting on a cake board that looks like grass and this effect is so easy to create. Using a 1M piping nozzle, you want to move the top of the nozzle back and forward over the fondant, tearing the surface slightly. This give the appearance of short cut grass.
Once you’ve added all the blades of grass, what really brings this effect to life is colour. Grass is never one shade, you have light green, dark green and also a little cream to make it look like there is a little dead grass in between.
I really hope you enjoy this weeks tutorial and will be able to use some of these effects on your ow cake boards. Let me know in the comments below which is your favourite and if there are any other cake board effects you would like to see.
If you would like to know how to make wood grain or stone you can also watch the first video in my cake board series below ⇩
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Tools I used
I have put a list below showing all the tools that I used throughout this video or if you would like to see all my favourite cake decorating tools just click here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/cakesbylynz
Drum Boards: https://tidd.ly/3vEU30c
Double Sided Tape: https://amzn.to/3EDxuNt
Plastic Smoothers: http://amzn.to/2pPcb96
Wilton Corn Flower Pot: https://amzn.to/3Lebw5N
Fondant: https://amzn.to/3JEdCLP
SweetSticks Lustre Dust: https://tidd.ly/3zQaqHQ
Edible Glue: https://amzn.to/3D9nJWJ
Wilton 2D piping tip: http://amzn.to/2xqSpQN
Wilton 1M Piping Tip: https://tidd.ly/3L6RWch
Edible Pen: https://tidd.ly/3vVcA8X
Black ColourSpash Gel Colour: https://tidd.ly/3xPNCtY
Satin Silver Lustre Dust: https://amzn.to/3K72dE3
Dipping Solution: https://amzn.to/3Laz2Ry
Green Extra Sugarflair: https://tidd.ly/308xEwp
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