Rice paper sails are cake toppers made with rice papers (aka spring roll wrappers) soaked in water, then molded into various shapes and dried. Super cool, easy and inexpensive way to decorate any layer cake! What is rice paper sail? What do you need to make these cake toppers? What do you need to make these cake toppers?

Just wind the base of the sail around the skewer or cocktail stick and it will just stick to itself. You can also use a silicone mat, to make the rice paper sails. The silicone mats are more ridged than parchment paper, but it still create beautiful rice paper sails.

If you need to attach your sails to your cake in a particular way. When the rice paper gets tacky to the touch, you can add skewers or cocktail sticks to the base of the sails. Just wind the base of the sail around the skewer or cocktail stick and it will just stick to itself. You can also use a silicone mat, to make the rice paper sails.

If using warm water, you may need to soak the rice paper for a shorter length of time. You will also need some scrunched up baking paper (parchment paper) for each sail or silicone mats, placed onto baking trays. I used Sugarflair gel paste colours in SkinTone, and AmeriColor in Deep Pink.