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Hi everyone, I will be doing a 50th birthday cake shortly and was just wondering how I would ice the board. If I use Paul’s method I would have to piece it up in places and if I do it first then it would make the numbers appear higher on the board? Anyone done this sort of thing before?

i would do the board as a whole first- the cake wont be that much higher and will still sit flush with the board. If you have a join where the cakes meets,you can either wash with royal icing and brush away, use ribbon or fondant round the bottom of the cakes.

Thank you s-1-hart I will do it that way.

Hello jgibb

There’s a good tutorial in by cakedecorations in youtube. Search ‘how to ice a number shaped cake’. The quality of the video isn’t very good but clear enough to see the technique.

I would also ice the board first, then place the cake on. I done a 50 shaped number cake last year, and found it difficult to cover in fondant in one go. What i ended up doing was covering the sides first, then the top, and covered the joint with some nice piping. It definitely was much easier than trying to get the fondant into all the nooks!
Kirsty x

Thanks to everyone Kirsty I had thought about that method but was unsure if anyone else had done it. Once again many thanks to you all. X