Question Regarding Cutting Edible Image Frosting Sheets?
Baking By kissmycookie Updated 26 Feb 2007 , 6:22pm by cryssi
Has anyone here cut individual quarter and half cake size kopykake frosting sheets for custom cookie sizes? If so, was it successful and does using an x-acto knife work best or will quality scissors work?
thanks in advance for any advice !
If they aren't too dry you can cut them with a good pair of scissors. If they are dry and brittle they will curmble. HTH
I use and x-acto knife for very detailed stuff, much easier than scissors. Your icing sheets have to be fresh, if they start to dry out they will crumble when you cut them.
Just yesterday I cut up a frosting sheet with my "very" sharp kitchen shears and had no trouble at all. I was very surprised at how well it cut. It was a freshly printed sheet.
Haven't tried a pizza wheel yet ... but the scrapbooking scissors (the ones that cut all different designs) work great, too.
thanks for all the great suggestions everyone, back to report I used several things as a test, and found that a pair of very sharp short scissors I have for embroidery sewing cut the cleanest edge - the pizza cutter caught on the edges so those weren't as clean? tscookie I tried the scrapbooking scissors but I think mine must not be sharp enough?
anyway, we're doing photos tomorrow when everything is completely dry, I used some vintage illustrations so when we get enough sunshine to do good photos I'll post them here !
thanks again for all of your suggestions !
My favorite is a small pair of Friskars orange handle scissors. I pick mine up in the craft department near the quilting items. They are small enough to get into the detail corners and very sharp and clean to cut easy. I use these same scissors to take my roses off of my flower nail. Love em!
I didn't have a clean xacto, so I used a ruler and a small paring knife. Worked pretty well. I've also used those decorative edge scrapbooking scissors...gives you a pretty edge so you don't have to do a border!
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