Need advice about royal icing
I need to make some royal icing cherries to put on a cake. Since I have never used it before I was wondering if anyone had any pointers or tips. I am not sure what cosistancy it should be or how much coloring to put into it. Anything would be great. Thanks for reading. :)
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Permalink Reply by Sherry Qualls on
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can't give you a whole lot of advice Amanda, but its gonna take a whole lotta red to get cherry color..start with pink, then add red. Can I ask why royal icing? fondant cherries would be easy to make...but you also might want to consider doing a run out for the cherries..that would be two consistencies...stiff for the outline and thin for the runout. Hope that helps a little.
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Permalink Reply by Aimee Youngblood on
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i agree with sherry. i would use fondant. if you're making them real looking (3D) then i would think that it would be difficult to get the RI to dry solid enough.
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Permalink Reply by Amanda G on
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I was thinking of trying it out. I don't have any equipment for fondant yet. I've just been working with buttercream. Thank you for the tips.
Sherry Qualls said:can't give you a whole lot of advice Amanda, but its gonna take a whole lotta red to get cherry color..start with pink, then add red. Can I ask why royal icing? fondant cherries would be easy to make...but you also might want to consider doing a run out for the cherries..that would be two consistencies...stiff for the outline and thin for the runout. Hope that helps a little.
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How would o go about it with fondant? I want to make them 2d. Thanks for your help.
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Permalink Reply by Theresa Happe on
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Rather than worry about how much food coloring it will take to make it red (which will change the consistency any way by the time you get a dark red) I would just make the cherries in white, let them dry, then paint them with a mixture of powdered red food color and vodka.
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Permalink Reply by jeri c on
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Amamda... if I were making cherries... I would start with already tinted red fondant... Satin Ice is my fav... roll into a small ball the size you want them to be. If you do not have any tools don't worry.. you can use a toothpick and make a small indentation in the top and then use a piece of a toothpick painted with the super black americolor gel for the stem. Red is a very hard color to get with dyes.
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Thank you all for your ideas they are very helpful. I was actually going to make them 2d but I decided to go in a different direction with the cake. One of my friends is moving into her own place and the cake is going to say " home, sweet home" on it and have some flowers and leaves. I think that maybe this is a better design for it. What do you all think?
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