Cake decorating advice....

[Derian]

no pickled walnuts then?

Good stain for the icing, walnut juice. Could be a goer

 

[moose]

Indeed. Even the trendiest wedding cakes <glances at PieEye> are now individual cakes. I found myself in this astonishing shop last week, marvelling at their cakes.

Anyway, back to the PROD cake - Supercook make ready-to-(rock and)roll icing in black.

 

[pootle]

Madonna had cup cakes for her wedding.

this thread is making me so hungry for sweet, sweet cake!

 

[spanglechick]

Madonna had cup cakes for her wedding.

this thread is making me so hungry for sweet, sweet cake!

you can paint icing with black food dye very successfully - i have done it. but glitter sounds cool too. I have eaten black cake, tis fine.

What breed of cake are you going to be baking?

(PS - i think I have some red edible glitter in my birthday-cake-bits box.)

btw - i'd understand if you wanted to do it alone, for the sense of acheivement... but i'd be willing to lend a hand if you like...

 

[madzone]

You can get this stuff to spray on if you want it black. I've only tried the red and it ws ok.

 

[Derian]

You can get this stuff to spray on if you want it black. I've only tried the red and it ws ok.

That looks good. Presumably the spray is fine enough to do a stencil type effort?

 

[madzone]

That looks good. Presumably the spray is fine enough to do a stencil type effort?

The red was

 

[twisted_angel]

Trace the design onto paper, place on your cake then use a pin and do prickmarks following the design onto your cake ( which should be iced first, either royal icing thats set hard or fondant icing ) mix a thick royal icing mix and using a number 2 nozzle follow the design then leave to set, mix a runnier royal icing mix in the colours required and use to infill the areas, when its set you can always use a fine artists brush and food colouring to add detail.
Try doing the infill design on tracing paper first before attempting your cake, its easy when you get the hang of it.
Good luck x

 

[Pieface]

This is all great - thankyou!

I'm going to have a think and then we'll see what I come up with. Don't want to reveal all on the thread or people will know what it's going to look like and say things like; "that's rubbish - that looks nothing like I expected"

 

[trashpony]

There's a shop which specialises in cake stuff in Dulwich I think. You can hire tins and they have all sorts of specialist icing and that.

Do you want me to find out where it is?

 

[Pieface]

Some closure folks.....

Witness the "beauty" :

It was one of the most traumatic things I ever did do, rolling out that icing and then it sticking to the chopping board repeatedly. It was different thicknesses throughout and didn't cover all the cake on one side

But - I was quite proud of my effort.

Next week I make my own sausages

 

[moose]

looks good