What are some alternatives to use when you want to write something on a cake?

Question

I only have one color frosting, and I just walked to 7Eleven...They didnt have candied letters, frosting, or anything.

Could you make something using eggs, sugar and flour, or creamcheese, or something?

Answer 1

If your frosting is brown because it's chocolate frosting, then you can make icing using powdered sugar and milk or water - adding just enough to make it the right consistency for writing. The writing would then be white. If your frosting is white, add some chocolate to the icing recipe above to make it brown. Can't think of any safe way to make another color. Make sure your icing is just thick enough to go through the decorator tube and practice on a piece of wax paper before you do the cake so you don't make a mistake.

Any chance you can get ahold of those gummy worms? You can shape and cut them into letters but keep it simple. Or any of that red rope licorace. You might even be able to spell out words with tic tac candies/breath mints.

Answer 2

Well, from my experience...
You could only make white lettering with sugar and flour, maybe a little yellowish if you use a lotof egg yolk, however have you thought about using caramelized sugar for your lettering?
Try this: Cut out the negative of what you want to spell out of cardboard, heat the sugar until it melts, and browns, and pour it over the cake and the negative. Then, if you lift the negative quickly enough, so that the sugar is still soft, it will stay there in the shape of the letters you want...
Other than that, just use water, flour, and sugar to make a pasty cream and write in white frosting. That's if you're SURE you have no food coloring, like even the ones for easter eggs which are safe to eat...
What I did on my birthday cake was buy a bar of chocolate, put the letters cut out of cardboard on the cake, and then grate the chocolate on top... then i picked up the letters and it was a lovely cake. Just make sure you buy brown chocolate if your cake is white.... the store must have some.

Answer 3

If you have any frosting left (the one color you have), you can lighten it by mixing in confectioners/ powdered sugar and some water -- add a little at a time to keep the consistency in control.

Change colors by stirring in either Kool-aid drink mix or Jello powder. Do not use granulated (regular) sugar, it will just ruin the frosting.

If you DON'T have extra frosting (you bought the cake):

Use tiny candies - mini M&M's, etc.
Cut gummy-worms into short sections and make letters
Cut stencils out of index cards and sprinkle sugar (regular or powdered) or the kool-aid or jello mix.

Answer 4

Yup, any sort of candy would be good to lay out some letters.

You could blend cream cheese, sugar, food coloring, and the tiniest bit of milk or water to adjust the consistency. But without the proper cake decorating equipment, it would be very difficult to make your lettering look nice.

Answer 5

well, candy of course, and stencils with sugar or add food coloring to ur frosting it it's not white and see if taht helps if u like cinnamon i guess that could be used for the stencil if ur frosting is white. candy probably the best bet here though. lol, the cake for Frank??? haha, draw jack on it from the nightmare b4 christmas! lol. happy halloween btw!
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hope this helped, sorry if it didn't.

Answer 6

All of these are good answers OR...

You could write your message on white waxed cardboard using colored markers and decorate it with glue-on's. (IE: little sequins, plastic army men, etc.)

A good example...Frost the cake, cut your cardboard in the shape of a heart, glue red lace around the edges and write "I LOVE YOU, JOHN!" in red metallic marker and place the decorated heart directly on top of the frosting. Press it down a little to stick.

As a last resort...it does look nice if you put some time into it.

Answer 7

not with what you sugested.....not a diff color anyway.....

If 7-11 is you ONLY choice....you could do less-regulational writeing. Like, licoris, hard candies, gummi worms, chocolate serioupe(like for choco. milk or icecream), caremel syrupe....

or, if your frosting is any color OTHER THAN white, you could maek a stencels and use regular sugar to make lettering. That would be cool


btw, who's b-day is it?

Answer 8

You could use buttercream, its made from butter and icing/confectioners sugar. You could also use cream cheese instead of the butter xD

Answer 9

Sour candy ropes or licorice.

Answer 10

Use M&M's