When I was asked to do a western style wedding cake, I really didn't know what to put on it, but the first thing that came to mind was the tooled leather designs, that are everywhere here in Oklahoma. So I did some research, again, I cannot stress enough "Do your research" and I found some designs online. I was working with Edible Photos at the time, so I used my photo program and made some strips of tooled leathers that I really liked and then printed them off onto the edible paper. I cut the strips out and after placing them onto the sides of the buttercream cake, I used a plastic tool and just embedded the designs into the buttercream. It worked like magic and actually looked like the real thing! So here are some of the different ways I used the strips for different designs and different cakes.
And here are some of the strips I use.
The following cakes are some just for fun cowboys and cowboy stuff.
I have been all over the internet looking for the western mats. Can you tell us where we can find them. aasmith22@tntech.edu. Thank You!
ReplyDeleteYou just saved my day!!! I was on here researching how to get the tooled leather look, and you answered it! It is so much easier than I thought it was going to be too!! Thank you so much!
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You're welcome. I just wanted to help others who were looking for ideas for western/cowboy and native american themed cake ideas. When I first started doing this, I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything at all that was authentic so I had to wing it. I wanted to be able to help and I'm so glad that I did.
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