Mimi
43 posts
Feb 02, 2008
2:43 PM
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This is an egg white-free "royal icing" cake that I copied from the lid of a box of Valentine's candy. It's hard to tell from the photo, but each droplet of icing (white, pink, red, green) was piped with a #2 tip to simulate needlepoint. First I made a template from the lid using graph paper. Then I filled in the squares with icing, kind of like painting-by-numbers.
Mimi
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Last Edited on 2-Feb-2008 2:48 PM
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Bryanna
Owner/Moderator
2275 posts
Feb 03, 2008
2:07 PM
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That is unbelievable, Mimi! What a lot of work-- and a work of art! I would never have the patience!
Would you share your "Royal icing"?
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Debbie
1450 posts
Feb 04, 2008
7:50 AM
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Wow, that's incredible? Mimi, how do you transfer the flowers onto the cake? Or did you pipe it on the cake? Then, how do you transfer the picture onto the iced cake?
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Debbie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
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JulieH
416 posts
Feb 04, 2008
9:25 AM
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Gorgeous cake Mimi!
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Mimi
44 posts
Feb 04, 2008
3:47 PM
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Thanks, all!
The royal icing is made from 10 x sugar + enough soy milk to make it "flow." Because the plaque was not going to be eaten, I didn't flavor the royal icing. To make the royal icing more elastic, I used brown rice syrup for the colored icing, and corn syrup for the white background "stitches." I cannot give precise measurements because it was done by "feel."
First I iced the cake with buttercream icing using Earth Balance non-hydrog. shortening and let it set up at room temp. I photocopied the lid of the candy box to use as a pattern for the plaque to be placed on top of the buttercream icing. I placed a piece of wax paper over the photocopy pattern and taped this to a piece of cardboard. Using a #2 tip, I piped the white "stitches" first, then went back and filled in the flower "stitches" which were comprised of 3 shades of red and 3 shades of green.
I don't have the patience to knit or crochet, but I can spend hours decorating a cake or molding chocolate!
Mimi
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