Comments on: How to Put Icing on a Cake

By: joyce

joyce — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:26:26 +0000

Hi, I am a beginner at cake decorating. How do I sprinkle chocolate rice or chocolate flakes at the sides of cakes already coated with cream? Can anyone advise me on this? Thank you.

By: Cinzia

Cinzia — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 03:11:47 +0000

Jeanne, if your using buttercream to pipe on fondant, it won’t work. Royal icing should be used to pipe any designs on fondant. Hope this helps.

By: karlie

karlie — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:02:21 +0000

Hi i am gonna try and make my little girl a birthday cake as she is 1 in a couple of weeks so i wont to make a number 1 can anyone tell me what is the best way to ice the cake and has anyone got any good recipes for butter iceing also would you put jam through the middle please advise

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:12:37 +0000

Why won’t my piping stick to the fondant on the sides of the cake?

By: sana

sana — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:12:12 +0000

hi, whenever i do fresh cream icing after a while, little cracks appear. any suggestions for that? i use whipping or double cream and i put icing sugar in it as well.

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:20:17 +0000

Kristy,

If you put a layer of crumb coating over your cake first before you freeze it, this will help. Crumb coating is taking the frosting you already have and slightly thinning out the consistency with either milk or light corn syrup, you pass a thin layer of frosting over the entire cake, you will notice that there are crumbs in the coating, when you freeze the cake the crumbs will be trapped in the crumb coating so when you actually frost to decorate your cake the crumbs will not be free to intefere with you final design.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:51:32 +0000

I would suggest keeping a glass of water close by and periodically, dip your spatula in the water. This works for me.

By: Kristy Guinn

Kristy Guinn — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:15:36 +0000

After my cake comes out of oven and it cools on wire rack, I start to the frosting process or icing. I ALWAYS get pieces of cake in the frosting! Why? I let it get cool as a cucumber, I even put it in the freezer this past time that I made my son’s Birthday Cake!! Please help because I REALLY love to make my own cakes.
Thanks