Question About Frosting Sheets...help
Decorating By PerryStCakes Updated 1 Sep 2006 , 6:33pm by cakeladywalker
I plan on using frosting sheets on cookies for a wedding. I have never done this before. The cookies will be iced in royal icing. Quesiton is: when do I put the frosting sheet on? Wait until the frosting is mostly dry? Or still wet? Or totally dry and attach the frosting sheet in some other way?
Thanks in advance! CC is the BEST!
Are you using royal? I would wait until the icing is dry or slightly tacky before putting the icing sheet on. Is the icing colored? Just keep in mind that the color of the icing might transfer through the icing sheet if it's placed on too soon!
Amy
where do you get icing sheets from?
Kopy Kake
I usually frost the cake/cookie and let it sit a few minutes, just while the frosting sheet is printing, then put it right on there. You want the frosting to be tacky enough that the sheet will adhere and begin to 'melt into' the rest of the frosting. That's on BC... I never use royal, so I can't say with any authority on that.
Do you guys think the frosting sheet will get wrinkles if I put it on the royal too soon?
(Normally, I would do my own little experiments to find these answers out, but given the high cost of the edible ink and the frosting sheets themselves, I hate to waste a single one!)
If anything, I would say just don't touch the top once you lay it on there. If you daintily lay it on top of the tacky icing and don't touch, you should be fine. I think let the icing set up a little since you are using royal, but don't let it harden!!! Just be as accurate as possible while placing them so that you don't have to try and move them. I did some sugar cookie pops with my son on them when he went into the hospital and the nurses went wild! Needless to say, he was the favorite on the ward! I always like to treat people!!
Did you see Lisa's article? Here is chapter 2. She gives a few tips on royal icing and frosting sheets.
http://www.cakecentral.com/article60-Edible-Images-Chapter-2---Edible-Paper-Types--How-To-Apply-Images-to-Your-Cake.html
Did you see Lisa's article? Here is chapter 2. She gives a few tips on royal icing and frosting sheets.
http://www.cakecentral.com/article60-Edible-Images-Chapter-2---Edible-Pape
r-Types--How-To-Apply-Images-to-Your-Cake.html
Oh my goodness - this answers everything - THANK YOU!
Chiming in a little late here, I've only done one edible image cake so far, and had the image printed for me. I wanted to experiment a bit, so I took the leftover corners of the image sheet and played around with them to get a feel for how it all worked.
I was putting the image on an oval cake (the Wilton Course II cake size), so I had pretty big corners left over after cutting out the oval piece I needed. I actually just spread a layer of buttercream on a covered practice board, and put a couple of pieces of the scrap on it to see how it went on, if it wrinkled, what color it was, etc.
I would imagine that you will have a fair amount of trimmings from cutting out your images, you could play with those to do some testing before doing the "real" ones.
hth!
Laura.
I would wait for royal to dry. Then attach with buttercream. And forsure let it dry if the Royal Frosting is a deep color. Cuz the print will take in the color of frosting.
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