"stgagnon" > wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
> I just purchased a fancy "sand castle" bundt cake pan from Williams
> Sonoma. I'm making a "Knights in Shining Armor" birthday cake for my
> little boy. I'd like to glaze the cake with something that I can cover
> the entire cake with (not just drizzles down the sides) but will not
> hide the details of the sand castle mold. After glazing, I'd like to
> further decorate it by putting candies on it and piping frosting on
> some of the details.
>
> So my question is this: What kind of glaze can I make that will be
> thin enough to cover the cake completely by pouring and not so thick
> that it hides the details.. or that it needs to be spread on, which
> will certainly hide the details. Also, if it were thick enough also to
> stick on candy embellishments that would be great, but I realize I may
> need to just spread on buttercream in the places where I want to stick
> things..
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice!

No matter what you use, some of the detail will be obscured. I would use a
ganache. You can make it thin and put on as many coatings as you think are
necessary. I would put the cake on a rack over a sheet pan and pour the
ganache over it. You can collect the excess and use it for additional
coatings. The other option would be a poured fondant like one would use on
pettifours. The fondant will harden and be a more satisfactory base for
piping decorations. You can tint the fondant. The ganache will taste
better but it will be the color of the chocolate or confectioner's coating
that you use. I guess that you could use white chocolate and oil-based
chocolate coloring agents.

I would use a light lemon/confectioner's sugar glaze. Prick the cake
repeatedly and drizzle it on. It will sink about 1/2 inch into the cake and
provide a sweet flavor, but won't obscure any of the details. It's not even
really visible. I'd drizzle a couple times, and let the bottom of cake soak
up as much of the excess as possible. The downside is that visually your
fancy cake is just one brown crust in the shape of a sand castle.

"stgagnon" > wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
> I just purchased a fancy "sand castle" bundt cake pan from Williams
> Sonoma. I'm making a "Knights in Shining Armor" birthday cake for my
> little boy. I'd like to glaze the cake with something that I can cover
> the entire cake with (not just drizzles down the sides) but will not
> hide the details of the sand castle mold. After glazing, I'd like to
> further decorate it by putting candies on it and piping frosting on
> some of the details.
>
> So my question is this: What kind of glaze can I make that will be
> thin enough to cover the cake completely by pouring and not so thick
> that it hides the details.. or that it needs to be spread on, which
> will certainly hide the details. Also, if it were thick enough also to
> stick on candy embellishments that would be great, but I realize I may
> need to just spread on buttercream in the places where I want to stick
> things..
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice!
>
> Suzanne.
>