Royal Icing Diploma



Final week of the course!

 

We had to bring in our presentation cake based on the theme we were given earlier in the course. Mine was a first communion cake as below.

 

 

We had to bring in a sample board showing all the different piping skills we learnt thoughout the weeks.

 

Finally a small plaque showing our brush embroidery.

 

 

During the lesson we did oriental string work which I loved as below.



We also created a bridge out of icing then piped lines.  We then added the lace we had made in the previous week.

I had a great time on the course and looking forward to practising my new skills. I found the 5 week intensive quite tough so I would probably do them over 12 weeks in future.

Next up Sugar flowers!

Royal icing diploma week 4

This week we completed the detail on our runout collars and left to dry.

We then experimented painting our runouts (I did butterflies), we used metallic paints and paint made with paste colours and rejuventator spirit for the swan.

When the collar was dry we lifted it carefully off the cellaphane using a tiny palette knife. Mine came of without breaking which was a relief!

The collar was secured to the cake with royal icing as it is very important the cake is level or the collar doesn't stick.

Once secured we used our piping tubes to make side designs. I chose branches with leaves and flowers and has time to paint them with metallic paint.

Finally we made some lace designs for use next week. This was done using soft peak royal icing with a small amount of gum tragacanth to make it stronger. After a while this made it difficult to pipe with. I also made some butterflies and painted them for next week.

Baby feet mould

Picture of the baby feet made with my new mould!

 

Royal icing diploma Week 3

Today we focused on run outs.  We made a collar for our round fruit cake and a spare in case of breakage.  We also made white runouts of swans and doves from the PME book.  We used the liquid colour to create a runout (I made a bible for my presentation cake). Finally we used the metallic paint for the outline of one of the runouts.  I found it quite difficult to get the icing the right consistency for the runout but I found the squeeze bottles brilliant for putting it into the outlines.

Finally we looked at stencils.  These we much simplier and achieved a great effect even if my royal icing base wasn't great!