Begin by dusting your work surface with icing sugar to prevent your marzipan/fondant from sticking. Step 2 Knead your marzipan/fondant into a ball. Step 3 Gently begin to roll out the fondant/marzipan keeping your rolling pin horizontal. Step 4 Gently lift your fondant/marzipan to ensure tha...
If fondant is sticky, add a few pinches of confectioners’ sugar. Dust your counter top, rolling mat or wax paper and rolling pin with the sugar as well to keep the fondant from sticking. 3. Roll out the fondant to the size of your cake. To keep fondant from sticking, lift and move...
A written recipe for royal icing with illustrations. Discover how to quickly and simply make royal icing for piping and flooding.
When I added more pink color to the fondant to get the darker shades, the fondant got a little bit too soft, so I used the toothpicks to hold the ruffles up until they dried a little. You could do this for any/all fondant where the ruffles wouldn't hold up well and just let them...
If you’re a regular Martha Stewart, you might envision going all out and making your own cake from scratch and decorating it with layers of fondant—you go-getter, you! But if you’re not so culinary talented, feel free to grab the nearest box mix and icing at the grocery store. ...
Fondant is granulated sugar that's boiled, poured out to cool and beaten until thick and smooth. It's then kneaded to achieve a plastic consistency. After a few days of resting or "ripening," fondant can be shaped into decorations or rolled into sheets to cover cakes. Maple candy is mapl...
Icing smoother A handy tool for cake decorating, a smoother helps to give you a professional finish, smoothing down your marzipan or fondant ready-to-roll icing after you've applied it to the cake. You can buy this from specialist cake decorating shops. Read our review of cake decorating ga...
Step 1:Then, roll out enough fondant to cover a cylinder. Cut straight edges on three sides of the fondant (top and sides). In the same way, you may wish to cut a little extra and trim excess away later. Step 2:Paint some glue. ...
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To get started follow our simple gingerbread dough recipe. How to decorate a Gingerbread Man Struggling to find gingerbread man decorating ideas? We recommend whipping up some fondant icing, and popping it in a piping bag to get creative with a design, why not try a gingerbread lady or ...