How To Ice A Wedding Cake With Royal Icing

First apply a thin even coat of royal icing about 5mm in thick to smooth the cake surface.

How to ice a wedding cake with royal icing. Royal icing is great for making designs in advance to put onto the cake however is quite restricting in terms of design. I love to use this thicker form of royal icing to smooth over cakes and create a blank snowy slate for other decorations. This video is brought to you.

This video shows you how to cover a cake with royal icing in a step by step way. Marzipan once placed onto your cake needs to dry for 24 hours before covering with royal icing according to the essential guide to cake decorating royal icing timeline you will then need three or four applications of royal icing with a drying time of 8 hours between coats. Covering a cake with royal icing can be tricky.

You might elect to use royal icing which sets very firmly. Royal icing is also pure white in colour making it perfect for the all white wedding cake or a great blank canvas to colour. Additionally my easy royal icing is the perfect consistency for creating a really fun texture.

Royal icing is applied with a palette knife and has a very different finish to fondant. Center this smaller cake in the center of the first cake to create a layered wedding cake. Pipe two rows of dots around the top edge and fill the sides with royal icing dots.

Brush water over the marzipan and lift the sugarpaste over the cake and cover the same way as for the marzipan. Before you get onto the decoration you ll want to make sure you have the perfect cake base on which to work. It s very important to mix this long.

3 knead sugarpaste to soften it and roll it out on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar until it s large enough to cover the top and sides of the cake and for the largest cake to cover the top of the cake drum too. To do this i get creative with an offset spatula and go to town creating lovely swirls and. Mix shortening water vanilla almond extract and half of the powdered sugar with a mixer for 5 10 minutes.