Regal or Royal Icing

kah22

This year I've three cakes: the traditional fruit cake and two Creol Cakes. My intention would be to ice the top of the traditional and a Creole Cake and to cover the other with whole blanched almonds.

Why three? Been divided between family

arbrighton

+1 for the royal icing sugar after years of making the damned stuff properly and it setting hard. 10 min max to mix and I rough iced (i.e. splatted it on and made rough snow) in about 15.

Noone in my family likes fondant and having been taught to make it by my great aunt, who was a properly trained baker and worked for Fox's biscuits, it wouldn't be right for me to do it either.

Mum and I agreed that my wedding cake should be royal iced since we don't like fondant. Quite hard to find someone to do it rather than quick and easy fondant. It's a skill to do well

Poppy3008

Argh.....I had the same dilemma and did not know what to do so used Regal - not happy with result. Have had to apologise to family who received cakes as it's not the icing I wanted but could not find royal icing anywhere! I have to say I don't really like fondant icing so will pick it off my slice! Next year I will know better. Hope the royal icing is a success.

DigForVictory

A pal of mine is just wild about white marzipan for almost exactly this reason. None of the sorrows of fondant, none of the hard labour (utterly delicious though it be) of royal icing, and just loads more of what we love, marzipan...

To each their taste, and all the best to all Royal Icing makers - I salute you!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

helcat26 wrote: »

Sorry to buck the trend but no-one in my family likes royal icing. It used to be a pig to make- all that beating, then it set like rock and everyone just chipped it off!


Some of the family like fondant so I do a cake with fondant for them, others I just do white marzipan- or nothing for those that eat it with cheese.

Add a dash of lemon juice.

jackyann

'Four pounds of icing sugar. Four egg whites, you can get the pasteurised ones. Dash of lemon. Brute force in bowl and covers a Christmas cake.'

Blackbeard makes Christmas cake for all of his harem & the neighbours as well - either that or he digs through a Mont Blanc of icing.

And Poppy - you can easily make royal icing to Blackbeard's recipe. 1 small - medium cake uses 500g. icing sugar, 1 egg white, 2.5ml lemon and I add a teaspoon of glycerine so it doesn't set too hard.

As I said, I tend to use the packet now so that the whites are pasteurised, as I have only ever seen pasteurised egg whites sold in large packs (fine for Blackbeard, less so for me!)

kah22

Got two cakes iced (tops only) added a teaspoon of glycerin to the mix to stop the icing getting to hard. Done for he swirl effect I think it looks more effective.

bubbs

I dont icing i do this

kah22

Looking nice ��

bubbs

kah22 wrote: »

Looking nice ��

Thanks, so easy too, we dont like icing so do this