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icing . . . . driving me potty!!

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 16:05

How do you get icing the right consistency so it doesn't just run off the edges of the cake!

We can't afford a card/pressy for MIL for tomorrow, her fave cake is coconut with pink icing so I was going to make her one tonight but can I get the icing right to just plonk on top of it!? Can I heck!

Do you think it would be ok with sugarpaste maybe? I can manage to make that neat around the edges! Or would it be a bit sickly maybe?

TIA

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 16:36

someone? anyone? any thoughts at all?

I am icing fairy cakes at the mo for the lo & they look a mess!

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bigTillyMint · 21/03/2009 16:38

Buttercream is easier to manage than just icing sugar and water, and it would taste nice with coconut ontop

ComeOVeneer · 21/03/2009 16:38

What kind of icing are you using?

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 17:19

I was trying just icing sugar, water & a tiny bit of colouring to make it pink but it's driving me nutty tring to get it neat looking!

Would buttercream be nice on a coconut cake bigTilly? I've never tried coconut cake so wouldn't know

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bellavita · 21/03/2009 17:21

Just make it less runny surely? Start by adding a the smallest amount of liquid until you get the right consistency.

Plonk the icing in the middle of the cake and then spread it with a palette knife. You may get the "odd" drip but it shouldn't run down the sides.

ComeOVeneer · 21/03/2009 17:26

I would go with butter icing (colured pink and flavoured with some vanilla essence) and pipe it in a swirl then sprinkle dessicated cocnut over the top. I never use icng sugar/water mix other than to stick decorations onto cakes.

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 17:59

@ my piping skills! But that sounds very pretty & probably much more successful than I have been with the cakes for the lo so will give it a whirl.

Thanks ComeOVeneer, much appreciated

bella, you would have thought so, but no, not had any luck doing it that way! I have some very odd looking little buns sat on the side right now! They have icing dripping all over the sides of the paper cases (bad thing! The lo hates stick hands & eats them out of the case)

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bigTillyMint · 21/03/2009 18:03

If you can't pipe, just spread it on - it will look lovely with the coconut on top anyway.

ComeOVeneer · 21/03/2009 18:06

PIping is easy. Put in a round or star tip, load bag with buttercream, twist open end closed. Apllying even gentle pressure start from the outside and pipe in circular motion getting smaller and smaller as you head towards the centre of the cupcake (tip should be a 90 degrees to the cake).

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 19:04

like a spiral kind of round and round. I will give that a go shortly , thank-you.

oh, I meant sticky fingers, not stick fingers!

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ilovehim · 21/03/2009 19:24

I make my icing deliberately running so it trickles down the sides of the cake - I think it looks pretty!

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lucysmam · 21/03/2009 19:39

the lo wouldn't touch them. She's very particular about certain things (has to shut doors as she comes into a room, stacking cups & boxes have to be all the same way up, no sticky or mucky fingers . . . she's a bit strange sometimes!)

They were only as a practise for icing the cake for MIL so will eat them myself & practise piping on the rest of them & we'll have a picnic tea tomorrow on the floor with the lo & eat them then

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ilovehim · 21/03/2009 19:56

LOL, my DS1 was just like that - getting less strange as he gets older - now 8

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