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naffle in vegancooking

Royal Icing and Candy Melts

Feb 03, 2010 17:22

So I've been taking Wilton cake decorating classes for the past two months. We are now using royal icing and I was wondering if anyone had a really good vegan recipe? I've checked the tags and memories and haven't found anything regarding royal icing. And when I look at other sites, all the recipes have slight differences so I'm not sure which one ( Read more... )

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the_moogie February 3 2010, 23:14:42 UTC

I've coloured white chocolate for use in wedding cakes without problem.

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sprytaen February 4 2010, 03:10:56 UTC

I can't stop looking at your icon.

halloween13 February 4 2010, 01:16:26 UTC

I just mix powdered sugar with rice milk. Then I add either a little vanilla or almond extract for flavor. It always gets hard since powdered sugar has cornstarch in it.

emiwenis February 4 2010, 01:56:59 UTC

i've used the royal icing recipe here for valentine's day cookies

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naffle February 4 2010, 02:37:45 UTC

have you used it to pipe things like flowers??

emiwenis February 4 2010, 02:39:25 UTC

hmm no. just a round tip, nothing too fancy. Do flowers pipe on with a flat tip? i'm not sur eyou normally make icing flowers out of "royal icing"

naffle February 4 2010, 02:45:55 UTC

theres a lot of different tips you use. and i'm in a cake decorating class right now and we're piping all our flowers with royal icing because it hardens completely.

so i'm just afraid that they won't harden correctly! but i guess i'll just have to try it myself. :)

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3mileislandr February 4 2010, 17:10:27 UTC

I took the Wilton classes too, and the royal icing is hard to duplicate and be vegan with. What I did was replace the meringue powder they recommend using with Ener-G and then mixing in plain corn starch (actually I used potato starch but whatever you have on hand) until it would stand stiff. It takes quite a bit more than the meringue powder does, but it eventually works. Your flowers probably won't be as crisp and pretty as the book shows, because no matter what I did there was still a tendency for it blend a little.

Does flax flour exist? I'm thinking something made from ground flax with a texture similar to almond flour might work really well. Good luck on the color flow though, I still haven't figured out how to get that working right.