I am contemplating attempting that cake from the cover of one of Wilton's books where the whole entire top of the cake is covered in roses.
The directions say to make the roses from royal icing. I never really ate royal icing. How does it taste once it is dry?
Do people eat the roses that are made from royal icing? Or should I make them in buttercream? I mean, the whole top of the cake is going to be covered in roses, I'd like people not to push them off.
Do adults eat them?
Can you cut through them like buttercream or is it hard to cut the cake with the royal roses on top.
No, once they've hardened, you can't cut through them...use buttercream if you want to cut.
I've never made them with royal icing because I've been told by many people that you can easily break a tooth eating it. I think that the flowers made with royal icing are so pretty. Everyone that I make cakes for want to be able to eat all of the icing though so I just stick with all buttercream.
Whether folks eat the royal icing flowers seems to depend on how sweet they like things. Plenty of folks eat the royal icing flowers when I make them. But, that's pansies, daisies and the like. I think there is just too much icing in roses for people to eat them when they are made from royal icing. They get really hard, which is fine for thin flowers, they are just a bit crunchy, but royal icing roses are quite hard to bite through.
That's what I was thinking, too. That royal would be fine for small, flat flowers or for writing and such, but that a whole rose would be a bit much to try and eat -- no less the entire top of the cake covered in them. I was also trying to imagine how they would cut such a cake with all of the royal roses on top. I guess in the Wilton book they are just going for the "look".
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