I would like to sometime in the future do a cake with white crusting buttercream frosting then do a black damask stencil with either buttercream or royal icing. Does the black bleed into the white? If I did a wedding cake a day or two ahead of time with this would it be okay, without bleeding? Which would be best black bc or royal icing?

Thanks for your help!

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Honestly, not sure if it would bleed or not, but I do know that you want to use Americolor gel coloring and using meringue powder will limit your bleeding. Best I can help is, give it a test run. Sorry I am not much help.

I did this exact same kind of cake in November (in my profile pics). I waited until the buttercream crusted very well, I used chocolate buttercream and colored that black (didn't take as much coloring plus it tastes like chocolate!) and a little bit of meringue powder in the chocolate buttercream....did stencil & piping work and literally held my breath for it not to bleed--woke up the next morning and no bleeding!! hope this helps!

Thank you everyone. I never heard about adding meringue powder. The advice and tips on this site is soooooooo helpful. Thanks to all you CC'ers!

I did a white buttercream frosted cake with black damask stencil a couple of weeks ago. It is in my pictures. I ask the same question on here about the black bleeding. Someone suggested using the wilton black decorator frosting in the tube, they said it wouldn't bleed, which I did and it worked really well. I did it the day before and it did not bleed. HTH