Piping on fondant

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Permalink Reply by Sandra Boston on May 15, 2010 at 3:20am

Hi Shannon, you didn't say whether you were piping on to fondant or buttercream, if you're piping on to fondant use royal icing, if you're piping on to buttercream use buttercream ( i use a 50/50 butter/crisco buttercream - which holds up well for piping). If using royal icing, I use the royal icing mix, simply because it's easier than making it with egg whites. When colouring icing black, I add a little cocoa, as this way you don't just get dark licoricy green, you actually get black. You can use a rolled up kitchen towel, to slightly angle you cake, I prefer a tilting turntable, but they are expensive, it just means you can turn it round easily. The black royal icing won't bleed on to your fondant, as long as you follow the directions for making it and use gel paste colours. I f mixed to directions, it won't fall off. Whew, is that everything?

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Permalink Reply by Eileen S on May 15, 2010 at 9:47am

You didn't say when it is due. Do you have time to practice? I'm told using a stencil with thinned buttercream on fondant works well, but may take some practice. (This is one of those techniques to practice on my to-do list).

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Permalink Reply by Shannon Burtenshaw on May 15, 2010 at 3:50pm

hi, its not due till Queens birthday weekend, so have a good 6 weeks up my sleeve thankfully. Will launch into it today and see how we go. Thanks heaps

Eileen S said:

You didn't say when it is due. Do you have time to practice? I'm told using a stencil with thinned buttercream on fondant works well, but may take some practice. (This is one of those techniques to practice on my to-do list).

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Permalink Reply by jeri c on May 15, 2010 at 7:09pm

You could also purchase the fleur de leis molds and make them out of fondant or gumpaste. I am pretty sure Global Sugar Arts has them and also First Impressions Molds. Satin Ice makes a very nice black fondant that works well... If you prefer to pipe them out of royal icing you can do them ahead of time and let them dry so you don't actually have to pipe them onto the cake which with black can be tricky! You can print your design of the computer whatever size you want it to be. Tape the paper to the table and then tape wax paper over the top of it. You can outline your design then fill it in with royal icing and allow it to set up and dry. Once dry the wax paper can be peeled off the back and you can attach it with a few dots of royal icing on the back.

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Permalink Reply by Juliet on August 12, 2011 at 2:50am

I have to do some black scrollwork on a fondant cake and wondered if this would this work on a round fondant cake, or just a square--that is, flat--cake? Would love to know.

jeri c said:

You could also purchase the fleur de leis molds and make them out of fondant or gumpaste. I am pretty sure Global Sugar Arts has them and also First Impressions Molds. Satin Ice makes a very nice black fondant that works well... If you prefer to pipe them out of royal icing you can do them ahead of time and let them dry so you don't actually have to pipe them onto the cake which with black can be tricky! You can print your design of the computer whatever size you want it to be. Tape the paper to the table and then tape wax paper over the top of it. You can outline your design then fill it in with royal icing and allow it to set up and dry. Once dry the wax paper can be peeled off the back and you can attach it with a few dots of royal icing on the back.

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