how do you make icing for piping?

Question

need a recipe for icing that can be piped onto a birthday cake before monday HELp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

THE BEST icing [many folks call icing, "butter cream"] for piping and cake decorating is a shortening, like Crisco, and 10X confectioner's sugar.

The Food Network has an excellent icing recipe.

You might also want to Google "Icing recipes".

Thanks for asking your Q! I enjoyed taking the time to answer it.

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Ron Berue
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Answer 2

I've made both Royal Icing and Buttercream Icing for big fancy cakes, but I've also just cheated and used the canned icings a lot too (especially for my son's birthday cakes). It's so much faster and simpler, and works well as long as it's not a really hot day and you already know at least a bit about piping.

I usually buy cans of frosting in white, then color it in several separate bowls with paste or powdered icing colors --ordinary food coloring will work but since it's liquid, it will thin the frosting even more. Then I put the colors I've chosen into separate bags and go to town on the cake.
Letting it sit awhile will firm up the icing even more, but often I'm down to the last minute so end up serving it almost right away...)


Diane B.

Answer 3

Wilton's Buttercream Icing Recipe
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 tablespoon Meringue Powder
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (Snowdrift was recommended because it's the whitest)
2 tablespoons water, warm
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon light Karo syrup
icing colors
Sift the confectioners sugar and meringue powder into a large mixing bowl and set aside. Cream the shortening. Dissolve the salt in the warm water. Add the water and extract to the shortening and mix. Gradually add the sugar, no more that 1 cup at a time, stopping to scrape the sides of the bowl. With a hand mixer, mix for 5 minutes on medium speed. With a stand-up mixer, mix on low for 2 minutes.

For the three different icing consistencies:

STIFF:
The above recipe will give you your stiff consistency. After mixing, remove 1 cup for make flowers.

MEDIUM:
To the remaining 2 cups add 2 teaspoons of water. Remove 1 cup for borders and flowers with petals that lie flat.

THIN:
To the remaining 1 cup add 1 teaspoon of light Karo syrup. This will give the icing more elasticity for icing the cake.

COLORING ICING:
The Wilton icing colors are very concentrated and can be easily combined to make other colors. To use the colors, open the jar and take a flat toothpick to poke a hole through the foil. Streak your icing with the color from the toothpick. Use a different toothpick each time as to not contaminate the icing color jar.

NOTES:
1. To use entire recipe for icing, after mixing ingredients together, add an additional 2 tablespoon of liquid.
2. Icing may be refrigerated for up to 2 weeks or frozen for 2 months.
3. For a better tasting icing, substitute 1/2 of the shortening for butter. Substitute milk for the water. If this is for practicing, stick with all water and shortening, it holds better.
4. To ice and decorate a two-layer 8-inch cake, double this recipe.

I've used this recipe many times to decorate cakes and it works great. You can get meringue powder at many hobby stores that have a baking section and I've seen it at Walmart in the crafts section where the wedding cake stuff is. You don't absolutely NEED it but it does a bit of stability. Also, you can use regular food coloring instead of the 'icing colors' but I feel the genuine icing colors give a better result.

Answer 4

Powdered Sugar Icing Recipe
The shiny smooth finish of the powdered sugar icing will give your cutout cookies that perfect decorative touch and its flavor will add just the right taste.

Powdered Sugar Icing (+)
Ingredients

- 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
Food coloring







Prep Time: 20 minutes


Directions

Add all the ingredients into a small mixing bowl. Stir until powdered sugar is moistened.
Beat mixture with an electric mixer until smooth. If icing is too thick, add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of water and mix again. Continue to add a small amount of water until the icing is at the desired consistency.
It may be desirable to leave the icing a little thicker to begin with to do the piping on the cookies first. If you are going to do flooding, a little more water can be added to thin the icing at that time.
If decorating with different colors, divide the icing up according to the number of desired colors. Add small drops of food coloring to color the icing.
To use this icing for decorating cutout cookies, pipe the icing around the outer edges of the area to decorate and then fill in by flood coating. Use a pastry bag for piping or use a plastic bag and squeeze icing out a clipped corner of the bag.
Once piping is done, thin the icing down for flooding by stirring in 1/2 teaspoon or less of water. Continue to add water 1/2 teaspoon of water at a time until the icing is the proper consistency. It should still be thick but it should run off a spoon in a steady stream.
Spoon the thinned icing inside the piped area and then smooth out with a knife to evenly coat the cookies. The icing will harden after being allowed to sit and dry for a couple of hours.
When you are working with the frosting, be sure the frosting not being used at the time is covered with plastic to prevent it from drying out.
Sugar or sprinkles can be added while the icing is still tacky but if it has dried too much they will not stick.
Once the icing has dried, other decorative toppings can be added to decorate the iced cookies. Toppings, such as sugars, non-pariels, sprinkles, dragees, nuts, and candy can be used.
To decorate after the icing has dried, using toppings such as sugar and sprinkles, apply a light coat of warmed light corn syrup with a small paintbrush in the area that you want the topping to stick. Sprinkle the coated area with the desired topping.
Other toppings, such as dragees, nuts, and candy can be added by applying a little frosting to the topping and sticking it on the cookie.

Answer 5

fruit grows on forest or vines and fresh vegetables grow in the floor.

Answer 6

water and icing sugar (bought from any supermarket)

Answer 7

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