[Sca-cooks] Bah! Humbug!! - icing work...

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Yay, I get to use my brand-new Wilton Cake Decorating III education!

You must wait until the piece is =completely= dry all the way through, then peel
it off.  Don't do what I did and try to detatch when the surface is merely
touchable, it will break. We had the poor timing to be taking this class during
the wettest winter in years - nothing ever really did get dry.  Setting it in a
very slow oven overnight helped a bit.  If you leave a little paper on the piece
it won't kill anybody.

Your bear sounds extra cute, I hope the birthday "child" loves it!

Selene Colfox

Susan Laing wrote:

> Hi Ho The List!
>
> Sorry - long time no posting (real life got in the way again)
>
> Anyway... I'm up tonight (it's 11.22pm here) trying to do a cute-sy
> floodwork icing motif for a friends birthday cake.
>
> Being the vague but irrepressible person that I am (no comments from the
> peanut gallery Drakey ;-p) I decided to do this without really thinking it
> through... (I've read books on it in the past and figured it didn't look
> *that* hard)...
>
> Anyway I have now got the basic outline of a Cavalier Teddy Bear - colours
> are setting nicely - I'll add in the facial details with a lick of darker
> icing later - along with the silver sugar ball rapier)  and am thinking that
> maybe doing this on baking paper might not have been the smartest move (my
> plan was to make it up and then transfer it to an oval of set marzipan and
> thence onto the chocolate cake at the party....)
>
> Anybody know how I detatch it from the Baking Paper???
>
> Mari
> (currently making herself sick on Royal Icing... Mmmmmm....)