Icing "lace"

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Permalink Reply by jeri c on February 12, 2010 at 12:33am

I have some color flow but have never used it. It does look like what is shown in the picture...

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Permalink Reply by diane kilgore on May 8, 2010 at 4:16pm

your cake is beautiful, are you talking about cornice design that is free hand

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on May 26, 2010 at 9:10pm

This link explains lace filligree that you are looking for including templates:

http://www.creative-cake-decorating.com/filigree-icing.html

I recommend a number 1 tip instad of a 0 to make them a bit stronger so they dont break as easily when you get them off the plastic wrap. Copy the templates and place them on the back of a sheet pan, cover tightly with plastic wrap then pipe designs. Let dry at LEAST 24 hours before carefully peeling off. Pipe a buttercream border and stick the filligree into the border. Tweezers will break them, easier to use your fingers.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on May 26, 2010 at 9:30pm

I was trying to find the filligree patterns on that site I sent the link to and I cant find them. However there are a few books you can get on amazon or half.com that have templates plus lots of other great decorating techniques:

Lace and Filligree by Nicholas Lodge
Professional Cake Decorating by Toba Garrett
Wedding Cake Art and Design by Toba Garrett

I have Toba Garrett's books and the Professional Cake Deco book was my textbook when I went through school...it is excellent.

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Permalink Reply by jeri c on May 28, 2010 at 12:47am

Toba Garrett's books are amazing. I have looked at them at the bookstore before but never purchased them.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on May 28, 2010 at 1:10am

Jeri I got mine on half.com it is part of the eBay system....great prices...similar to Amazon. It is worth every cent....

jeri c said:

Toba Garrett's books are amazing. I have looked at them at the bookstore before but never purchased them.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on June 14, 2010 at 12:18pm

I just found lots of lace patterns from Wilton...in pdf format...free downloads
http://www.wilton.com/decorating/patterns/patternlocator.cfm?start=...
do a search for "lace" there are 3 pages

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Permalink Reply by Jenee on June 14, 2010 at 5:27pm

Yes, Runouts and Color flow are the same thing. It's using thinned royal icing to run and fill in a template. Birds, swans, anything you'd like. The royal icing can be colored or white. Wax paper or Cello is placed over the template so that you can see where you are drawing and running color. :)

Machelle said:

Just so I understand is a run out also called colorflow? Or do you use something else?

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Permalink Reply by Jenee on June 14, 2010 at 5:30pm

Thank you for the link, very helpful!

Karen Marie said:

This link explains lace filligree that you are looking for including templates:

http://www.creative-cake-decorating.com/filigree-icing.html

I recommend a number 1 tip instad of a 0 to make them a bit stronger so they dont break as easily when you get them off the plastic wrap. Copy the templates and place them on the back of a sheet pan, cover tightly with plastic wrap then pipe designs. Let dry at LEAST 24 hours before carefully peeling off. Pipe a buttercream border and stick the filligree into the border. Tweezers will break them, easier to use your fingers.

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