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asked February 26th 2016

Swimming pool cake

Hi has anyone made a swimming pool cake? How deep should I make the pool bit to make it look realistic? And what would you recommend to use to make the rope bits for the lanes as I will be using piping gel for the pool and don’t want it to sink to much in to that any help would be great as I’m a newbie ?

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Hi has anyone made a swimming pool cake? How deep should I make the pool bit to make it look realistic? And what would you recommend to use to make the rope bits for the lanes as I will be using piping gel for the pool and don’t want it to sink to much in to that any help would be great as I’m a newbie ?

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hi Woodycakes, just managed to catch Paul. He suggests 1″ – 1.5″ deep in piping gel and for the lane separators some thin spaghetti with tiny sugarpaste balls fed through. Hope this helps. Kind regards David

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Thanks that great help !
Jo

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Hi woodyscakes

Piping gel doesn’t dry solid. If you’d like to use an alternative ingredient have a look at recipes using gelatine or jello. Google ‘how to make a swimming pool cake’ to see loads of recipes. G’d luck with your project!

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So could I use clear gelatine with blue food colouring? What would look more realistic gelatine or piping gel you think I really want this cake to look good I’m going to start the starter blocks tomo for practise out of gum paste.

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Yes gelatine can be coloured. Lots of information in the following forums:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=swimming+pool+cake+tutorial+using+gelatine&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=TdPQVpj3Fovca_LhhpgJ

The best thing to do is make some coloured gelatine up and see whether you like it. Gelatine is a meat by -product so will not be good for vegetarian guests.

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So I finished the swimming pool turned out great well I think so anyway ? Thanks for all the tips and help guys your all stars xx

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Well done woodyscakes, what did you use, was it the piping gel or was it the gelatine? x

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I made my own piping gel in the end was pleased with the results 1st for everything. X

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Great job! It’s a lovely feeling when Ists for everything come to a very satisfactory conclusion 🙂 x

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Woodyscakes I am about to do a swimming pool also. Can you tell me did you line the swimming pool with blue fondant or was the blue in the piping gel enough to colour the water. I was thinking of overing whole cake in white and then using blue piping gel. any thoughts please.. 🙂

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oh also how thick did you have the piping gel? I need to have some legs sticking our for a synchonised swimmer

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Hi tarnsmith

Please scroll up and see David Brice’s answer for depth of piping gel. You can make a lining or just colour up the piping gel for making blue water. A word of caution, piping gel takes colour very efficiently so add a little at a time until desired colour is reached.

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