Can Royal Icing Decorate A Buttercream Based Cake
Decorating By kmk Updated 14 Jan 2009 , 9:37pm by Sweet_Guys
I was just wondering if I make royal icing snowflakes and let them dry will they stay together if I put them on a buttercream frosted cake?
I have a wedding cake for the end of January and the bride wants buttercream frosting but she wants edible snowflakes decorating the cake sides and also toppers. Any suggestions?
I did exactly that on the winter cake in my photos. They held up just fine.
.........thing the oils in the buttercream would seep into the RI and just disinegrate it. But I guess not!...............
No, no, no a thousand times no. Once the RI deco is dried (and the RI properly made) there is almost no chance of that happening.
I was going to post about this very thing. I've seen a lot of photos of BC-iced cakes with RI decorations.
Are these usually iced directly onto the cake, or made separately? I'm referring to somewhat intricate line work, not solid images.
What's the advantage of piping decorations with RI as opposed to BC?
I ice royal right on my BC cakes and have had no problems, even with them painted and in the fridge.
Advantages:
1. Truer colors because the RI starts out pure white, rather than tinged with yellow as my IMBC is.
2. Easier to work with because it doesn't MELT in your hand while you're piping.
3. Easier to pipe in general.
I ice 1. Truer colors because the RI starts out pure white, rather than tinged with yellow as my IMBC is.
hat reminds me...do you use violet in the IMBC to cancel out the yellow from the butter, or is there anothermethod that would work better? I got done telling someone yesterday that my icing will never be true white because I refuse to use clear butter flavor, plus since I like SMBC and IMBC now, it's not possible to omit the butter.
Can any of you guys get your IMBC and SMBC truly white?
I ice 1. Truer colors because the RI starts out pure white, rather than tinged with yellow as my IMBC is.
hat reminds me...do you use violet in the IMBC to cancel out the yellow from the butter, or is there anothermethod that would work better? I got done telling someone yesterday that my icing will never be true white because I refuse to use clear butter flavor, plus since I like SMBC and IMBC now, it's not possible to omit the butter.
Can any of you guys get your IMBC and SMBC truly white?
My buttercream is neither Italian nor Swiss- it uses meringue powder, butter, Crisco, powdered sugar, and flavoring. Because it does come out ivory instead of white, I add a healthy dose of Wilton White White icing color. It makes a pretty bright white, and I like the way the texture comes out as well.
I never bother trying to get my IMBC whiter than it turns out, and it really depends on the butter. It just...is what it is. If a bride insists on super-bright white, I offer fondant. Most aren't that picky, so far.
Sometimes if you whip the butter for a long time before adding it to the IMBC, it will whiten the butter up some, but I add it at a fairly firm stage, so I'd have to re-chill it, and I don't bother with that either, so they just get the IMBC whatever color it turns out. All my cakes are either fondant or IMBC, so you can see how white it is, usually.
Yes, adding a very little bit of violet gel/paste color to a yellow or cream colored icing will turn it to a nice white.
I use butter and real vanilla in my buttercream, so I find adding a drop or 2 of voilet preferable to using a lot of white coloring (basically liquid titanium dioxide).
HTH
Rae
You can use white cake colorant and it will turn your icing white.
As far as the royal icing on buttercream, we've made flowers in advance and then laid them on the buttercream.
Paul & Peter
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