Using Royal Icing For Lettering-Need Details!
Decorating By springlakecake Updated 5 Jul 2006 , 3:32pm by AuntEm
I am wondering the details about using royal icing for lettering. I have seen a few cakes where the creator said they used this method and it looked great! I am just wondering if there are any special methods to achieve such great lettering. What consistency is best to use? Do you do it on saran, waxed paper, parchment paper? Do you do any smoothing with a brush? Does it break very easily? Do you have to do just one letter at a time or could you do a whole word? Any special tips would be great! Thanks!
When I have done it I used fairly thin consistency And smoothed it with a wet paint brush. The one cake That I have loaded on here I didn't do that on and it doesn't look so good. So if you want to see a example of what that looks like you can look. It is the pink one With the lace heart.
I use waxed paper.
It isn't really fragile. (But I don't think it would survive a drop on the floor or anything LOL)
When I did it I used one letter at a time but I don't see why doing a whole word wouldn't work.
HTH
AuntEm
You can do each individual letter or the whole word. I do a lot of cursive, so doing the whole word is helpful in this instance. I also write the word backwards on a piece of parchment and then instead of taking it off and handling it, I take the whole parchment paper and turn it on the cake, press the letters in, so now it's written the right way, and peel the parchment off. Then I trace the letters with buttercream.
It works really well, you need a little practice to handle the words with the correct pressure, but once you get it down, it works great.
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