Pleated skirt Tutorial (for a cake)

Here is how I made the skirt on my CI cake.

I used Fondant (sugarpaste/ready to roll icing) with Tylo (or CMC) kneaded into it.

Roll out to about 3mm thick. 

Cut to 5cm x 15-20cm depending on how many pleats and depth of cake.

Using your rolling pin, thin one of the 5cm ends by pressing harder on it and giving a little roll off.

Gently make a fold in the fondant (holding it up for the camera for too long will produce a hole! J - which was still usable - the hole was covered by the next pleat!)

 

Place on the cake, repeat and overlap the previous pleat.

 

You can continue around the cake in one direction, but I wanted a little more movement in mine, so after 5 I changed direction and attached fold to fold with a little water to act as glue.  

Where 2 ends meet, add a full cylinder at the end (instead of folding one side – fold from both and attach with water).

Ta Dah a skirt!