Please could anyone tell me how to make see through icing to make the water effect. I have seen some on the internet but they all ask for corn syrup/starch, as l am front england this is not available. So was wondering if anyone has an alternate recipe. Please help. xxxx

Do you have piping gel where you live? It comes in blue and other colors as well.

Here's a link to clear piping gel, but you can color it to look like water. Hope that helps.

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=704-105

For most recipes which call for corn syrup you can substitute liquid glucose or golden syrup, it's a bit trial and error to see which will be better in a particular recipe.

I'd try subbing liquid glucose if you have any.

Yours aye
Puss

Its piping gel you need its only clear over here but you can colour it blue with paste colours to get water effect for blue water most online suppliers sell it like almond art or design a cake.

thanks for the advice l will have a go at making it myself. Will get back to you on how it goes. xxx

http://cakecentral.com/recipes/6998/piping-gel-that-works

That recipe is great. (I reduce the lemon juice a bit.) However, you said you cannot get cornstarch. I googled "substitute for cornstarch" and found that you could use flour, potato starch, rice starch, arrowroot or tapioca:

http://www.joyofbaking.com/IngredientSubstitution.html

I don't know how well those things would work in the recipe, but the ingredients are not that expensive, so maybe you could experiment.
Good luck.

I made the piping gel from this site, I used the liquid glucose and had no problems at all... it turned out great... I added a little blue colouring to it while it was cooling and it looks great... very easy and very cheap to make

Shan...xxx