I finally appreciated the existence of dummies (foam cakes and cupcakes that you decorate to mimic real cakes and cupcakes, for display only) when I had to create 50 desserts in a day for the photoshoot for my upcoming book. The vast majority of desserts I did have to make from scratch at 3 in the morning, hours before the photographer arrived, but I feel completely OK about cheating just a little with a couple of the cakes and frosting Styrofoam blocks given the insanity of the schedule that week. Find a great resource and lesson in how to decorate a cupcake dummy HERE at Domestic Charm. You’ll also find a link at Domestic Charm to a tutorial to make your own dummies at Viv’s Whimsy that made me slap my forehead for not thinking about using Styrofoam balls earlier.
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LizAndrsn says
Photographic substitutes? No wonder my baked goods never look like the pictures!
They taste much better than styrofoam, for sure, but (now) I won’t beat myself up if they don’t look like Hollywood 🙂
Mary says
Oh wow. I didn’t even know those existed!
I literally thought that the post title meant that someone decorated cupcakes to look like crash test dummies or something.