Hi everyone....
First of all....I want to say that for the few weeks I have been here....my addiction has gotten progressively worse. But....I have learned so many things!!!
I have posted a few of my cakes and I have been asked by many of you how I did the lettering on some cakes....so I thought I would just cut and paste the reply I sent to someone this morning. I'm sure a lot of you know this stuff already...but here it is....
The letters on the LOVE and ELENI (my daughter) cakes were done with a fat round tip and royal icing that I piped onto parchment paper and then I let dry thouroughly.....On the LOVE, I then piped tiny dots all over....I used a little royal icing to make it all stand up. It looks nice but....It's hard to pipe neatly since it's all continuous....and I have a very steady hand.....also....it is very delicate....the letters were breaking in the middle and I repaired them with icing a couple of times. And, using the royal icing to stand them up looked a little bit sloppy....it's hard to see in the photos but there is basically a glob of icing under the words......they were also flat if you saw them from the back and I wasn't crazy about that either....
I have since learned that using gumpaste is much better. On my "KING" cake in my photos I made the lettering by rolling out long fat noodles from gumpaste and shaping them into letters. I let them dry at least overnight and then I painted them (Wilton spray in a can is great!). They broke in two places...but not in the middle of a letter...only at the "joints" and they were easily fixed with a dab of royal icing. So...I made a mistake and didn't think ahead...how to attach them....I wanted them to stand up like the others but I didn't want that glob of icing because this was for a paying client (my first!). So, I ended up just 'gluing' them with icing to the sides of the cake. The next time I do it, I will carefully insert a couple of wooden skewers into each word from the bottom before they dry so that I could easily stick them into any cake.
I hope this helps you guys....you have all been such sweethearts!
take care....
Thank you thank you thank you for the tips!!!! I'm going to try this!
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