Soooo, I have a customer who wants a cake "like her husband used to get for his birthdays as a child." He lived in New York, in an Italian immigrant community. (He is first generation American.) The cake had some sort of poured icing that formed a hard shell on the cake. His mom had to heat a knife to cut it.
Sounds awful to me, but I'm not the customer. Could this be royal? Any New Yorkers or old-world Italians out there who can solve this mystery?
Poured fondant maybe? That can crust up really hard if it gets too overheated (I know from experience lol!). I come from the UK where Royal icing is used a lot, and you don't have to heat up a knife to cut it - a hammer & chisel would be the preferred instruments (j/k lol!).
I would think of poured or any fondant,,if you are buying it from a bakery some time ago perhaps they let it sit on the self a day or two therefore the fondant would have hardened and not that a hot knife is absoulty necessary I could see someone using it..HTH
I come from the UK where Royal icing is used a lot, and you don't have to heat up a knife to cut it - a hammer & chisel would be the preferred instruments (j/k lol!).
I also don't think it would be royal, not even a heated knife will get you cleanly into a cake covered in royal.
It has to be some type of glaze, maybe she used a heated knife to get a clean cut? Sorry I can't help more
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