Help, Please!! Water

Decorating By Tiffysma Updated 2 Sep 2006 , 2:08pm by jguilbeau

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Tiffysma Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 1:05pm
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I'm working on a cake due this afternoon. I need water (a lake). I know I can use piping gel, but I don't like the texture after it dries out (gummy and yucky). What can I do to make it not have that texture? Mix with buttercream? Please help!! TIA

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chloe1979 Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 1:13pm
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Another thing you could try is blue buttercream (thin) with piping gel in it and tap it with a knife when it is wet to make "waves". I would practice a bit first in case you don't like it. There's my 2 cents, though.

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lrstone98 Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 1:20pm
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Maybe addind a little extra corn syrup so it stays wet. I have never tried it before though.

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jguilbeau Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 1:33pm
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I did a cake with water, and on my waterfall I used blue bc icing, then I brushed on blue tinted piping gel to give it the wet look. I also hate the taste of piing gel, and this did not taste piping gel, since it was only brushed on. The picture is in my photo gallery, labeled Hawaiian Lua.[/img]

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Tiffysma Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 1:55pm
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Thanks everyone!!

jguilbeau, I really like your luau cake. That is a nice look for the waterfall.

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jguilbeau Posted 2 Sep 2006 , 2:08pm
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Thanks everyone!!

jguilbeau, I really like your luau cake. That is a nice look for the waterfall.



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