My inner baker is bursting with questions, but I'll restrict myself to the icing-related ones: How did you get the icing so dark? Did it stain teeth and lips and such? (I've found that blue icing always seems to do this, but I keep hoping that one day I'll find a food colouring that just sticks to the damn icing. And also, I'm assuming the white icing was done with one of those bag-and-nozzle contraptions. Did you have any issue with liquid leaking out of the fabric of the bag? Last time I used one I had an egg white + icing sugar mixture, and I have no idea what happened but by the end my hands were covered in this drying stuff that made me look like I had a skin disease (a tasty one, but still icky) plus it had dripped over the biscuits I was making.
I think an icing skin disease sounds a bit fun, actually. ;3 Next time it happens, I'm going to have to convince someone to take photos. I was decorating zombie gingerbread men for my Hallow-Easter party. After the icing hands of doom, I was considering just paining myself in icing sugar ooze and going as a leper. A tasty leper.
Hmm, bought icing certainly sounds a lot easier than the food-colouring trials I put myself through. I'll have to look into that.
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How did you get the icing so dark? Did it stain teeth and lips and such? (I've found that blue icing always seems to do this, but I keep hoping that one day I'll find a food colouring that just sticks to the damn icing.
And also, I'm assuming the white icing was done with one of those bag-and-nozzle contraptions. Did you have any issue with liquid leaking out of the fabric of the bag? Last time I used one I had an egg white + icing sugar mixture, and I have no idea what happened but by the end my hands were covered in this drying stuff that made me look like I had a skin disease (a tasty one, but still icky) plus it had dripped over the biscuits I was making.
Actually, maybe I just need a new one...
But anyway, that looks awesome!
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Next time it happens, I'm going to have to convince someone to take photos. I was decorating zombie gingerbread men for my Hallow-Easter party. After the icing hands of doom, I was considering just paining myself in icing sugar ooze and going as a leper. A tasty leper.
Hmm, bought icing certainly sounds a lot easier than the food-colouring trials I put myself through. I'll have to look into that.
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I never knew black icing existed. I learned something new today.
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