How To Do This Technique...possibly Royal Icing
Decorating By alicia_froedge Updated 30 Mar 2006 , 9:01pm by Euphoriabakery
If you look on the home page of newest cakes posted there is a cake list as Winter Wonderland. She did a name in icing that cake stand up on top of the cake. How do I do this technique? I would guess use royal icing and freeze it. Is this right?
If you're going to use royal - don't freeze it!!!! It'll just collapse when it defrosts - you need to let royal air dry!
I have done the same kind of thing with chocolate. Just melted candy melts and piped them onto wax paper, let set until dry and peel off wax paper. Worked really well and I didn't have to mess with royal icing. Heres a pic. The Name on top is Pink candy melts.
I saw a method in a Wilton book, using numbers for the topper. Make some pre-shaped letters using florist wire (20 gauge?). On wax paper, using royal icing, pipe your letters. Immediately place the wire on each letter, then pipe over it. Let dry. Hope this helps.
I think the method that lsawyer said would work well for that....otherwise....a technique I have done to avoid using anything inedible is to pipe some little lines coming down from the royal icing name in royal icing too...creating a sort of "pick" to stick in the cake to keep the name vertical...only it was made out of royal so I didn't have to worry if some of it broke off inside of the cake. Otherwise I think you can just simply stand it up on the cake and push down on it a little to get it to stick.
Euphoriabakery...
Beautiful cake, but I have another question about the name - once you have it done how do you stand it up on the cake???
I piped a base out of the chocolate. Basically about an inch high. It touched the bottom of each letter. kind of like underlining them over and over. Then I just pushed the base down into the cake. If you were putting it on fondant you might have to score through the fondant first. Hope this makes since.
Could you use a popsicle stick to hold it up too?
Could you use a popsicle stick to hold it up too?
Sure, you could do that, but then you have to remember to remove it before serving the cake.
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