Piping Icing? Help Please

Juliav_2

Hi

In the middle of making my daughters birthday cake - she has asked for a cinderella cake. I have loads of sugar flowers and silver balls that I want to stick onto the cake.

Do I need to use piping icing or is there an alternative. Don't even know what that is?

Help Please!!

Gingernutmeg

If you just want to stick things to the cake, you'll probably be able to do it with a glace icing - that's just icing sugar and water, mixed until it's as thick as you need it. Basically, just use it like glue I'm assuming by 'piping icing' you mean royal icing - that's made from egg white and icing sugar, and will set hard. Personally I don't like using this for children's cakes as it can go VERY hard, and because of the tiny risk from using raw egg. I'd go with the glace icing, which you can pipe if you get the texture right. It won't stay very defined though. If you do want to pipe anything then buttercream (twice the quantity of icing sugar to butter) will work well for that, and will have better 'sticking' qualities than glace icing.

If you mean by piping icing, 'do I have to buy those ridiculously expensive tubes at the supermarket' then no, icing sugar and water will be fine

Juliav_2

Hi

Thank you so much for your reply. Just hope she will like it!!

Have great weekend.

D&DD

I made a birthday cake for DS3 and coated it in runny glace icing then melted some chocolate,poured it onto greaseproof paper and left it in the fridge until it was almost set.Take it out when just tacky and use some little cutters to make choccie shapes (I did little stars and his name in alphabet cutters I got cheap on ebay) and just place them where you want them,then used the sprinkles etc in between.:D