I'm working on a cake due this afternoon. I need water (a lake). I know I can use piping gel, but I don't like the texture after it dries out (gummy and yucky). What can I do to make it not have that texture? Mix with buttercream? Please help!! TIA

Another thing you could try is blue buttercream (thin) with piping gel in it and tap it with a knife when it is wet to make "waves". I would practice a bit first in case you don't like it. There's my 2 cents, though.

Maybe addind a little extra corn syrup so it stays wet. I have never tried it before though.

I did a cake with water, and on my waterfall I used blue bc icing, then I brushed on blue tinted piping gel to give it the wet look. I also hate the taste of piing gel, and this did not taste piping gel, since it was only brushed on. The picture is in my photo gallery, labeled Hawaiian Lua.[/img]

Thanks everyone!!

jguilbeau, I really like your luau cake. That is a nice look for the waterfall.