we learned in class to use buttercream and I thought it was pretty easy. I've never done it with royal.
I do it in buttercream on buttercream cakes (use some piping gel to make it "brush" more easily) and use royal icing on fondant cakes. I love the look of it and do it often.
Deanna
we learned in class to use buttercream and I thought it was pretty easy. I've never done it with royal.
So did I, I hadn't thought about doing it with royal icing. I didn't even know you could add piping gel. I will have try those both!
Sandi
Yes, give it a try. I did them with royal icing, I was surprised with the result. Make sure you keep clean up your brush.
Okay, so if you use RI, do you also add a touch of piping gel? I'm a bit confused.
My teacher told me a little bit of gel will prevent the royal icing go hard too quickly. You pipe in a section and 'brush' them, if too hard it won't be any good.
I did a workshop on brush embroidery last week. We piped the outline in RI, dipped the brush in piping jelly and then brushed the icing inwards. The instructor said the piping jelly was just to make the icing brush better. Here are the two examples I made
Riana, those are just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing and thanks all for the info re: the use of piping gel with RI.
One of these days I'm going to definitely have to give that a try, but right now I'm still recovering from my last few cakes, including my TD cake.
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http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-588359.html
Don't forget the other TDs also! 
thanks
Flower mom, it is a cutter that is pressed lightly onto the surface. The rose one is a patchwork cutter
Florimbio - thanks for starting this thread, and Riana, those are such beautiful examples!
Between the words and images, I hope to try this soon. Thank you to all.
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