What Is Faux Cake

A Faux Cake (also known as a Dummy Cake) is a cake made out of Styrofoam Cake Blocks. These tiers are the same diameter and height of a regular cake tier (4 to 5 inches high). … A Real Wedding Cake is a real cake that is baked, covered with fondant, and decorated according to the bride’s specifications.

What are dummy cakes used for?

Use a cake dummy to practice icing and decorating a real cake. Cake dummies can be used as displays in shop fronts to show their cake decorating skills. Make a fake wedding cake from cake dummies for wedding fairs and displays. Cake dummies can be used as false layers in real wedding cakes.

Can you put buttercream on a dummy cake?

When you’re decorating a dummy cake, you can use the same types of icing you’d use on a real cake, such as buttercream, fondant, or royal icing. You don’t need to crumb coat or level the sides for buttercream icing, and you can apply the final coat of buttercream directly to the dummy cake.