My daughter wants her favourite cartoon character on her birthday cake. I mostly have it sorted but would like to get an idea on what would be the best type of icing to draw the outside lines of the character? Was going to use black food colouring. The actual cake will just be an oblong shape with some ears so want to pipe a thinish line around the inside edge and do the eyes and mouth. Any help on the best (homemade) type icing to use would be much appreciated! TIA
alebix,
Apr 16, 3:20am
You can use icing, or licorice or even those strings that you can buy in the muesli bar aisle. .
fleance,
Apr 16, 3:29am
Thanks alebix, thought of licorice but couldnt find any that would be thin enough (also daughter doesnt really like licorice). Need black, strings only come in fruity colours?
margyr,
Apr 16, 6:54am
you can pipe butter icing, but royal icing would probably take the black colour better, that is egg white and icing sugar and a little lemon juice, if you google how to make it that will give you quantities. good luck and have fun.
clareypen,
Apr 16, 7:08am
Black icing needs to dyed brown first otherwise it goes grey
mismuffet,
Apr 16, 8:08am
Why not check out the icing tubes in the supermarket, they have them in lots of different colours, they're easy to use. Royal icing is good, but if you don't usually use it you may find it very difficult to get the right consistency without lumps etc
krazy_kat,
Apr 16, 8:55am
Check on here under crafts - you can buy tubes ready made to go. They aren't that expensive.
lizab,
Apr 16, 9:45pm
if you have iced the cake in ready to roll icing, you can paint onto it using special edible coloured powders mixed in a little white spirit (vodka or gin) and paint using a little paint brush. You buy little tubes of colours from cake decorating shops.
angiesbaking,
Feb 12, 4:52pm
x1
instead of black coloring use cocoa powder. goes very dark with 1 tS for 4 TS icing sugar
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