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!