Royal Icing Consistency For Piping On Cakes

Rosie shows you how to make royal icing suitable for flood filling and piping.

Royal icing consistency for piping on cakes. Piped as swirls on cupcakes on cakes piping flowers borders and more for buttercream decorated cakes. The peaks will still stand up but will have a small curve on the end. I love to use this thicker form of royal icing to smooth over cakes and create a blank snowy slate for other decorations. Then use a piping consistency royal icing to add some details.

Stiff royal icing is preferred for making 3 d decorations. Or have fun with wet on wet designs. With stiffer royal icing opt for larger piping tips to relieve the pressure on the piping bag. Use 1 tablespoon less water.

For piping flowers and flooding on cookies you can also use it on plain cakes if it s thinned with a little water. Medium consistency for icing outlining. It it close to the consistency of toothpaste and should come out of your piping tip smoothly with no breaks. Rolled fondant icing is used to cover cakes to get a clean smooth surface frosting.

Add teaspoons of water for every cup of stiff icing. Let the icing dry. Add 1 teaspoon of liquid light corn syrup milk or water for each cup of stiff frosting. The most versatile of the three medium consistency is used for borders such as stars dots and shells as well as other decorations that will remain relatively flat.

Almost but not quite. Buttercream however is a different story. Cake decorating with royal icing. Begin with the wilton buttercream frosting recipe.

Royal icing goes hard and tends not to bleed into fondant making for a nice clean look that cannot be wiped away easily. Piping consistency is thinner than stiff consistency but still holds its shape. As you learn some basics about how royal icing behaves it will be much easier to determine what royal icing consistency to use for a project. You ve made your icing using this royal icing recipe and colored it you re ready to decorate right.

Piping can be done with most any icing but i prefer to use royal icing if i am piping on fondant and swiss meringue buttercream if i am piping on buttercream. Make polka dots flowers hearts leopard print. The basics of royal icing consistency for cookie decorating. For more ideas and decorating tips see our other videos or look at http www facebook.

Piping consistency will have soft peaks. To do this i get creative with an offset spatula and go to town creating lovely swirls and.