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so some of you may have read my thread the other day about the rainbow cake I made for Jack well it was such a hit a friend has asked me to do her daughters cake but instead of all in one tin she wants me to do to a rainbow layer cake thats all well and good, but I need a really good really easy white icing mixture and with the decorations she saw one that had round circles of colored fondant do I just buy the ready made fondant in woolies divide and color roll and cut ???
I'm planning to do a rainbow layer cake at the end of the month (heaven help me, I've never baked in my life) I would think the supermarket fondant is fine.
I saw an amazing one with white fondant and then the birthday girl drew all over it with special textas, but I know my limits.
I'll be going with glittery gel pens.
If she wants fondant just buy the ready made stuff.
the fonadant is for the decorations not the actual cake itself she saw thi sone that had fondant circle of color stuck onto the icing
its the white icing thats worrying me... LOL
I reckon just buy white icing (maybe royal icing?) from the supermarket and buy fondant while you are there, too. You can colour the fondant by kneading the colouring in. Just add the colouring gradually, until you got the shade you are happy with. Then roll out, cut into circles and place on iced cake. Just make sure you work fast with the fondant, otherwise it dries out and cracks. Definitely ice the cake first before working with the fondant. Oh, and try using proper colouring paste (wilton or similar) to colour the fondant. The food colour from the supermarket is too liquidy and messes with the texture of the fondant. (In saying that I have successfully used supermarket food colouring when I was desperate; I just mixed the colour up with icing sugar first, to make a paste and then added it to the fondant.)
Maybe practice the deco on a trial cake first, before you commit? :dunno:
Good luck hun!!
Sorry, just read your comment above. So you are more worried about the icing? Do you know what icing you want? I.e. do you want an icing that dries to a smooth, hard matte finish (like royal icing - easy to decorate) or do you want a creamy one (like buttercream or white chocolate)?
I have the colors so thats no biggie they worked fine for jacks cake so I know they will color the fondant fine
she wants liek a buttercream for icing bu tmine turned yellow the other day does that make sense I though tsomeone might have a great easy icing that will stay white LOL
The only way I was able to whiten my butter cream was with white icing colour, wilton do one, I used americolor (about half the freaking bottle!)
dont tell me that i can't get wilton coloring locally
You can buy a vegetable based fat from cake decorating places that you use to replace the butter in your buttercream icing. It is super white and looks amazing. I can't remember the name of it though. Sorry that's not much help. I just had a quick google and you can order stuff online...maybe that is an option? Good luck
Just had a better check and it's called so-lite. HTH
Or you could just buy a tin of Betty Crockers icing stuff.
tinks thanks for the link can't PM you as it says your inbox is full :lol:
someone explain how adding violet coloring to buttercream makes it white :lol:
catherinmoses I did fidn a recipe on the wilton website that used vegetabke shortening something in america couldn't find a equivalent in australia terms though will goolgle that now
tinks yeah have thought about just buying the tinned stuff do the filling in normal butter cream...might just be easier
Could you possibly make a cream cheese icing? Tastes delicious, and is pure white! It also has the same consistency as buttercream icing.... Just a thought :D
Edit: I just did a bit of googling, and the main suggestion is to beat the icing for a verrrryyy long time. (the longer you beat it, the whiter it becomes. However it never really turns pure white)
Another thing I read was to use blue food colouring (and it doesn't have to be the Wilton one). You just add the TINIEST amount of blue colouring to your butter cream and it will "neutralise" the icing to look white. Apparently. It has somethig to do with Newton's colour theory and the way our eyes receive visual images :o Or something....
I reckon either buy a ready made white frosting or go cream cheese frosting. :D That's less complicated than setting up your own colour lab :rofl:. (*Visual image of you in a scientist's coat and safety goggles!* :lol:)
Good luck :D
:lol: Raupe thats what the video tinks linked me too did except they used violet color, I just can't work out how it works LOL....do you think a bunch of 4-5 yr olds would eat cream cheese icing ??? I had thought of that never made it either why I am stressing Ii do not know I bloody did my sisters wedding cake and her SIL's you'd think if I can do that then a kids bday cake should be a sinch :lol:
I think they probably would if they didn't KNOW what is was! :rofl::
I think they probably would if they didn't KNOW what is was! :rofl::
Yeah that!:
Make a small batch of the icing and see if your kids like it! I personally love it and I'm a big kid!! hehe
Otherwise you could mix the buttercream with the cream cheese icing! OR you could try the white chocolate and cream cheese icing that "Fast Ed" made for his carrot cake (on Better Homes). OMG :o It' soooooooooooooo goood!!! *droooool* :lol:
I haven't had much luck with the wilton "white" stuff that you add to buttercream. You have to add an awful lot of it and then it left a funny taste.
My suggestion would be a whipped egg white type icing. I think it is called fluffly frosting in the women's weekly cake book (if you have that). Basically you boil sugar and water and then pour that (while hot) into whipped egg whites and keep beating for 10 minutes. It is great! I use it all the time as it is pure white and tastes like marshmallow. You might want to have a trial go first though...
thanks raupe
bloom thats interesting to know its actually sold to add to buttercream and other icing to increase whiteness I did consider the fluffy one but hav enever made it the party is at 9.30am so am guessing the way it sound swould have to be up bloody early to make it I dont know... i'll work it out.. have till the party on 2nd oct :lol:
okay, I've been googling for you and came across this Flickr: Discussing How do I get WHITE buttercream??? in It's Your Cupcake, Cupcake!
Not sure if that will help, but there are a few suggestions there, as well as an explaination about why its yellow!
There is an icing called italian meringue buttercream that sounds quite similar to what Raupe was saying. Its really not that hard to do, I did it once (first time) to put on a white chocmud cake and it worked fantastically! I never even bothered with measuring the temp etc.. I just follwed the basic process and whipped the hell out of it, was very white!
I think I have decided to go with the fluffy icing out of the womans weekly kids book sugar water whip egg white add syrup whip it up sound yummy sounds relativly easy and stuff all ingredients if I stuff up LOL will have a few packets of ready made icing on hand as well
It is pretty quick, once you've had a practise batch. It doesn't take me any longer than buttercream.
Italian meringue is nice, but I haven't had much success with it.
Sounds great! Just make sure there are no pregnant ladies eating it, with the raw egg and all! ;):
Good luck! And don't forget to post pics :D