Luster Dust And Royal Icing Scrollwork

Decorating By fronklowes Updated 30 Jul 2006 , 9:00am by KrisD13

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fronklowes Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 4:17am
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Do you pipe the scrollwork, let it dry, dust it (or paint it), then add it to the cake or do you pipe the scrollwork on the cake, let it dry, then dust (or paint) it ... or something else?

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reenie Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 4:51am
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If it's fondant I believe you pipe it on the cake, let it dry and then paint it. If it's regular BC I think you pipe the royal on wax paper, let it dry, then paint it and transfer it to the cake

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TexasSugar Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 5:05am
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If you piped it on wax paper then put it on a round cake your pieces are going to be flat and not curve with the cake. I'd pipe directly on the cake, then paint on the dusts. If you dry dust them you are probably going to get flakes of color everywhere. If you paint it on you will have more control of where it goes.

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emmascakes Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 6:02am
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I use royal icing and luster dust all the time - let the royal icing dry and then paint on the lustre dust and then let it dry again. There's no point trying to do it with dry lustre dust as it won't stick to the icing.

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fronklowes Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 6:13am
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Thank you everyone. That helps a lot.

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KrisD13 Posted 30 Jul 2006 , 9:00am
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If you are going to make royal icing scrollwork for a round cake, you could also tape a piece of wax paper to the round pan and pipe the royal on. I've seen it in a lot of my books, just never had to do that .....yet icon_razz.gif

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