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

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

What she said. Totally completely dry, then peel carefully. What will
probably work best is if you lay it face down and then peel the paper off
very slowly. You're putting it on marzipan, so it should be just fine on
the cake--if you were putting it on buttercream you'd want to support it
with sugar cubes rather than let it touch the frosting, or it would melt
and bleed. Let the surface of the marzipan dry a bit before putting the
bear on it--royal icing is incredibly hygroscopic, and any moisture that
it can suck out of the marzipan, it will.

Margaret


> 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....)
>