Hi all,

I just found this video by Alan Tetreault that demonstrates how to stencil on a cake using royal icing. It's a short video, but my favorite part is at the end where he shows how he keeps the stencil in place on a round cake.

He attaches a sterile stretch wrap (he says you can buy at any drug store) to the stencil and it holds it in place. I think it's brilliant and thought I'd share.

Hi, remnant3333! I know some people stencil with buttercream. I've only stenciled on cookies, and I used royal for that. Royal icing is very easy to make. I would think it would be less frustrating to stencil with royal icing on a cake just because it dries so quickly and it hardens when it dries, so I wouldn't be as worried about smudging it.

I have stenciled buttercream on buttercream and it is very doable, but I'm not sure that it will work with a crusting buttercream.  I do make my stencil coat a little thinner than my regular buttercream.

That's good to know Kara!  I know a lot of people on this site use crusting buttercreams, and sometimes techniques work better with one or the other.  That's why I usually try to add that as a caveat.