Do You Want To See My Speckled Icing??!!??
Decorating By Suzycakes Updated 6 Aug 2007 , 1:38pm by Antylucifer
Well, this was a first for me. I was making a fresh batch of icing tonight - using Sugarshacks recipe. As I was letting the icing mix for the 6-10 minutes I added 2 drops of Americolor brown and probably 1/8 teaspoon of Wilton ivory to the icing mix so I could get a dark ivory color for this icing. I let it finish and when I started putting it on the cake - there were the speckles.
I didn't think it looked too bad - it is not noticeable from 4 feet away . . . so I just kept using it. I probably should have thrown it out and started over now that I am sitting here talking about it!!
Anyhow - DH and I started looking at it and noticed that there was some of the dark brown Americolor on the side of the bowl kind of stuck to some powdered sugar - could it have flaked off from this? I intentionally drop the food coloring into the center of the bowl next to the beaters, but I guess it threw it to the outside of the mixture as it was turning.
Forgive the blurry spot - I didn't notice that until I uploaded the photos. The wedding colors are brown with burnt orange. This cake was really hard to make - with the fall colors and living in 100 degree temps with 100% humidity today - it's definitely not fall weather here at all!!
Plus - there will be a brown bow placed on the cake before delivery in the bare spot in the upper left hand corner.
Thanks for looking and hopefully someone can help me solve this speckling problem.
Suzycakes
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