Sugar paste icing.....

julie2105

Siren1 wrote: »

Thanks to you all for yr advice, especially the bit about the sponge going stale!! Common sense I know so am hoping to make, freeze and then ice a day or 2 before the big day. They originally said that fruit cake was fine and now they have changed their minds! Their perogative I guess but I will tactfully suggest 1 or 2 tiers of fruitcake and 1 of sponge. Hopefully they'll go for that. Am daunted by the icing but hope I manage it, but nervous about the icing flowers I want to put on it too, will I need to buy edible glue for that do you think, to stick them onto the cake? Now to find a good website - foolproof - for a step by step guide on how to do all of this! Thanks again everyone x

tou should be able to just use vodka and the flowers will stick

Wiggly_2

If you're thinking of making a tiered cake you may need to put supports in the cake once it's decorated to support the other tiers. By using supports you can stack sponge cakes and not risk them sinking into each other. Have a look on the Wilton site http://www.wilton.com/cakes/tiered-cakes/dowel-rod-construction.cfm They are quite comprehensive.


As for using something to stick the decorations on with, you can use vodka or boiled water or royal icing piped finely under the flowers but for a more secure set you can buy edible glue, handy if you make large flowers and put them on the sides.


There are lots of places on the web that sell sugar paste cutters but I've managed to get mine from Lakeland Ltd as there is one locally and my local cake making supply shop. It wasn't until I was asked to make the cakes that I realised how many I had relatively locally! It depends on what sort of flowers you are thinking of making. The ones that you just press out can be really pretty. You can even get leaf cutters that press the veins in them so they look professional without all the hassle!

Siren1

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Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

your taking a sample?
me thinks this is just a ploy to be able to stuff your pie holes with cake, under the guise that its all to do with research :rotfl:

Looking for helpful replies actually, not a load of irrelevant nonsense.