How To Make Fondant Bows

I am assuming you are trying to make a bow that looks like how you would tie your shoe, with two loops and two tails? If this is correct them you need to make it from strips. I use gum paste fondant. I like to get all the dough even so I put it through my pasta machine

Wilton has a new measure and cut mat out with circles and squares to help you measure. I use that it may be expensive but it saves a lot of time
If you want the to be four inches in length and two inches wide you need a strip double that length. Cut out two lengths 8 inches in length, 2 inches wide. I then hang them out to dry, I have a special clothes dryer for pasta and I use that, but you can hang them from a wooden spoon over a deep kitchen drawer. Wet the edges a little and I mean a little, water is death to this, and pinch the ends equally together between you’re your thumb and the first two fingers(if you don’t know what I mean snap your fingers, and it is this I mean). I then leave them to dry for twenty-four hours.

Next day brush with a little pearl brush for that extra sparkly look. Set out a piece of waxed paper and get some royal icing for glue. Place the bottom row of loops on the paper with some on their side and some flat. Add more "glue" to the top of the ends and then add another layer. Keep adding layers using the same principal you can build it up to be about four inches deep and have about twenty loops. Leave to dry fro twenty four hours and then place on top of the cake.



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