Hey all. I have to make a birthday cake for my best friend (and you know she expects something great) and I just have not had the time to sit down and plan it out, let alone sit down and do anything. Needless to say, it is late, and I had just about decided to just make a plain jane chocolate cake, when I saw that advertisement for piping gel, talking about getting the stained glass look, and I thought, hmm, what a good idea! I could do that for fairy wings! Now, any tips, suggestions, instructions, or pointers on exactly how I'm going to do that?!?!
TIA.
Well, I've never used it, but from what I understand, you just mix paste color with the gel and you get a translucent color to pipe with. The only ways I've seen it used is to make like a stained glass look on cakes (with white backgrounds) - remember, it's like building a stained glass piece, so think in terms of the details being outlined in black and then filled in with color (I have quite a bit of experience with stained glass, so just PM me if you have design questions) - the result will be better if the design is on the simpler side - stained glass doesn't really lend itself to lots of detail. Good luck!
Yeah, something like that. My idea is to do colorful fairy wings in the stained glass look. did you do the piping gel over the icing? or is that colored piping gel? Does it takes bad if you use alot of piping gel?
yes i frosted thecake 1st then added the gel..no i could not tell a difference in the taste
This is what I saw that inspired me. I have already PMd this person -
http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&&file=displayimage&&pos=1001
Amanda, from her description it sounds like she did it on tracing paper, let it dry then moved it to a cake. You could do the same thing directly on a cake, either using the pre colored piping gel or the piping gel in a tube. I'd outline in black buttercream and then fill in with the piping gel.
There is also a recipe for run-in-sugar, that is used the same way. The run in sugar is made using water and corn syrup. I can not remember if something else is added to the water and corn syrup or not at the moment. But I do believe someone has posted the directions somewhere on here on how to do it.
If you don't hear back from your PM tonight let me know. She posts on another board I visit and I'll give her a heads up to come look here.
in her comments under the pic,
[Feb 12, 2005 @ 02:34 PM]
I piped the design onto tracing paper over a pattern (using piping gel) than let dry for a week. Removed it by flipping over and lightly saturating paper with water on a paint brush and then pealing the paper off. Placed on cake and VIOLA!
that sounds like it is in essence the piping gel verions of a chocolate/FBC transfer...but it took a week of drying time!!
(in this case w/ her method of piping gel and it including having to wet the paper its on...it sounds like one of those temporary tatoos!
so let's all go make cake tatoos!!)
Tracy -
Do you know anything about how the run sugar tastes? I'm trying not to make something that they are going to have to pick off to get to the cake.
yes, she replied, here's what she said, for anyone else interested in this process -
"You must pipe it on tracing paper in order to get it to release well. I colord clear piping gel to get the colors I wanted because the precolored stuff is too pricey. When it dries, it is almost like a fruit roll-up in texture, so you wouldn't want to eat it really. Because of the level of detail these wings had, I had to use thie method. But for fairy wings, I would just outline on the cake in black buttercream and fill in with piping gel. The gel itself doesn't have any flavor and it doesn't do anything gross to the icing, so it can be easily cut and served. Let me know if you have any other questions. "
Tracy -
Do you know anything about how the run sugar tastes? I'm trying not to make something that they are going to have to pick off to get to the cake.
It's just sweet-ish tasting. Not anything really to really affect the taste. Run in sugar will set but won't dry solid or hard. You can easily cut through it.
Hi there. I made a stained glass cake for my mom for Mother's Day (in my pics if you want to see it). I just used black buttercream to outline my flowers and letters, and let it set for a bit. Then I tinted piping gel with icing colours and filled in the designs. I used a paintbrush to fill in the designs nicely. It was really easy, and the cake tasted great!
gakali,
Did you use the Wilton piping gel in the small tub? I made some homemade piping gel yesterday, but I don't think it is going to work. It seems awful thin and I feel like it would just run instead of making a nice outline. I am really wanting to try a piping gel transfer. I have done 3 FBCT already. I might just have to buy the decorating piping gel in a tube from Wal-Mart.
I tried making homemade:
1.) lack of places to buy it around here
2.) I need/want to buy so many other things I figured why not try a homemade version.
darkchocolate
Yes, I used the Wilton piping gel in the small tub. I didn't OUTLINE the design with piping gel (you're right, that would be too runny), I outlined with buttercream and let it crust a little. Try the transfer if you want, but it turns out nice and smooth just doing it the way I did.....Good luck! Post pics!
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