How Do You Get The Royal Icing Not To Bleed On Buttercream
Decorating By tcdup Updated 3 Jun 2007 , 3:05pm by tcdup
I like to trace pictures (usualy from coloring books and things like that)and then fill them in with royal icing or color flow and them put them on a cake. Kids really love them. But the outlines always seen to bleed onto the other colors after I put them onto the buttercream icing. I let the images dry for a few days first. But the buttercream softens them. What am I doing wrong and how do I prevent this?
I'm not positive about this but I have had this happen before and I believe it was because my Royal Icing was too thin. I was making a dark red and i added too much color which it made it so runny. It ran right past my border...There might be another reason but that's what happened to me...
well, it isn't the icing itself that is seeping through. I outlined some little people in black, when the outline was dry I filled in the heads with a fleshy color, the bodies had on white karate uniforms. They looked sooo cool. I let them set for about 3 days and put them onto the cake the night before it was due and the next morning I had all the black color was starting to bleed onto the white and skin parts. It wasn't enough for anyone to be dissapointed (except me) But I was worried that if it had to sit much longer it would get worse.
Well - I can tell you that anytime I am writing in black or red and the cake has been iced in white icing - I ALWAYS store it in the fridge or wait to write on it until right before delivery/pick-up. The heat draws the color and it bleeds onto the white icing. Maybe it's same concept...the white icing drew the black color out because it got to be too warm or humid? Maybe I'm just stretching here...
To prevent this on your future cakes, pipe large dots of royal icing on your buttercream cake, and place the color flow image on the royal icing dots, which will keep the image off of the buttercream. The cause of this bleeding is the grease in the buttercream is breaking down the royal icing. Condensation, moisture, and heat would certain hasten the seepage of the grease into the royal/color flow.
It's a good idea to not place color flow or royal icing items directly on buttercream, but when you have to, try to do it with as little time remaining before the event.
I'm sorry that happened to you!
~ Sherri
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