Sweet Magazine 2013 - A Sweet Year Volume One, 2013 | Page 63

tutorial

Spray adhesive is the quickest and easiest way to stick
the doilies onto the background paper. Use non-toxic
spray adhesive if you can get it, or a non-toxic glue stick
and remove the cake from the doily board before you cut
and serve it.

You could even use thin cake boards and create cute
party placemats, or stack them up using paper covered
polystyrene cake dummies to make your own cupcake
stands.

You can pretty much use any paper you want on the
cake board. Scrapbooking paper is great for cake
boards 12” or smaller, be careful though as they are
usually 12” square, but wont necessarily fit a 12” round
or square board. You can also use pretty wrapping
paper, or even fancy handmade paper.
It’s best to choose a paper that is reasonably thick; you’ll
be much less likely to get wrinkles in the paper when you
glue it on. Pair beautiful doilies, paper and ribbon.

Covering your board this way relies on you having your
cake already on a cardboard cake card the same size
as your cake. Your cake should be pretty much fully
decorated before you transfer it to your paper covered
board.
If you want to do more decorating cover your board in
clear contact paper after decorating with the doily to
easily remove any marks.