Vintage Botanicals Cake Side Stencil

This botanical forward design features leafy ferns and other greenery. Create spring or nature inspired cakes when using this cake side stencil!  Sizing (sheet sizing includes thumb-holds): Sheet Size: 4.5" h x 8" w / Design: 3.75" h x 4"w - great on smaller cakes, top tiers and even as a cake top stencil! (see below for example of this design used on top of fondant wrapped cake). Sheet Size: 4.5" h x 16" w / Design: 3.6"h x 11.3"w - works well on larger and bottom tiers of cakes. Sheet Size: 9" h x 11"/ Design: 8" h x 10" w - Great for barrel, extended and extra tall cakes. Custom Cake Stencils: Contact us today or start a chat conversation with us if you need this in a different sizes, or need it customized in any way. Please contact us using our Request for a Quote form if you have a school logo you need turned into a stencil for your cake. Stencil Highlights 10 mil food-grade Mylar Greater durability than standard acetate Works with buttercream, fondant, airbrushing, powdered sugar, etc. Can be used on along the sides of round, square and rectangular cake tiers.  Easily repeated around perimeter of cake. Made in the USA Tips on Stenciling the Side of a Cake With Buttercream or Royal Icing: Make sure iced cake is completely dry. You can either let dry overnight, or put in fridge or freezer for about 30 minutes. Pin cake stencil to the side of your cake, making sure that all parts are completely flat against surface. Make sure the stencil is level on the cake. Apply a creamy consistency of icing using an rubber or offset spatula to spread a generous amount of royal icing over stencil, being sure to cover all the holes on the stencil. Using a cake smoother or the back of an icing spatula, remove the excess icing from the stencil. Be careful not to remove too much of the icing, you want about 2 mm of royal icing to remain on the cake so as to ensure that the pattern comes out well (or at least the thickness of the stencil sheet itself. Gently remove the stencil from one side to the other (don't just pull it off, it may disturb the design). To repeat the design horizontally or vertically, Allow the icing to completely dry before using the stencil on the uncovered portions of the cake. Be sure to start from the point where the previous stencil pattern ended. Continue this process until all the cake sides have been covered. You also want the stencil to be cleaned off completely between stenciling so that the openings are free of dried icing.  Once that is dry, feel free to airbrush on top of this, or embellish with luster dust, candies, drips just to name a few. We have a full blog post and video tutorial on how we used this stencil with fondant and airbrushing here.