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Help please
I’m wanting to make a free standing model on a decorated cake board. The standing model won’t be close
enough to the cake to secure it like Emma did in the castle cake tutorial. How would
I secure it to the board so that when it was transported there would be no issues.
Would I needd to make holes in the cake board? I’m wondering how Emma would do it using
her wire technique please.
Hopefully you can help!!!!
Thanks

Hi wardshar

You could make your figure on a wire armature as Emma has done and have it secured firmly down with royal icing into the cake board and leave to set. On the other hand you could make a standing model using lollipop sticks as the internal structure. Once the model is dry stick it down on the board again using royal icing. Search in youtube ‘standing person tutorial Artisan Cake Company’ to see a tutorial. In both instances I wouldn’t recommend using ganache or melted chocolate as glue unless you have some cool spray. IMHO Royal icing is the best glue for unsupported figures.
Hope this helps. x