Cake Icing Designs

Cake icing is an important decoration for all cakes and cookies. Icing mainly adds flavor, texture, and feel to the yummy cakes. There are many types of icing that can be easily prepared at home for cake decoration. The best part of any cake is the icing. Therefore, it has to be made sure that the icing on the cake is finger licking tasty and also very appealing. There are various kinds of icings to choose from.

Royal Icing - This is the most basic and the most commonly used icing that contains egg whites and icing sugar. But at the same time it is also the most classic icing and one can never go wrong with it. This is perhaps the cheapest frosting anyone can use for a wedding cake. It can also produce picture perfect cakes with very intricate designs. Royal icing is actually a very hard frosting so there is seldom need to refrigerate it. You can have your baker create miniature cakes for you using some of the frosting you are interested in and then you can taste them and decide which one will look and taste the best.
Sugar Paste - This icing is more like a sugary dough that is a mixture of sugar and glucose. This icing is also known as gum paste

Glaze icing - Now this is the icing one opts for simple plum cakes or cupcakes as it is just sugar mixed with water or fruit juice. Glazes are also a form of icing prepared using a fruit flavor. It has a thin watery texture but when poured on cakes it transforms to a hard crisp shell to make beautiful decorative. It mainly helps in improving the shelf life of cakes and chocolates.

Butter cream Icing - This is the go-to option for vegetarians who crave the creamy flavor as it is made of creaming butter and sugar.
One of the most important steps in how to get smooth icing on your cakes is applying a crumb coat to seal the cake surface from moisture. This will help keep your cake moist and keep your frosting from making the cake soggy. To apply the crumb coat, first let the cake cool completely. This should take several hours to ensure the cake is cooled all the way through. While it's cooling, you can prepare your icing, and thin a portion of it with milk, water, or light corn syrup to use for the crumb coat.

The crumb coat icing should be smooth and thin enough that you almost need a spoon to apply it, as it will run off your icing spatula. Use this reserved icing to completely cover the surface of the cake with a thin, smooth icing layer. Don't worry about getting crumbs in this layer; they will be sealed in the dried crumb coat. Wait for the crumb coat to dry into a firm crust before adding the second layer of frosting. Cake frosting is really the best idea through which you can easily provide your wedding with a luxurious touch.

The perfect cake frosting for your kitchen has four main ingredients. You need eggs, sugar, butter or cooking oil, and any flavours or extracts you plan to add. The method for making your frosting should include steps that make it as fluffy as possible. Some chefs heat up the frosting and in this case you will need some cooking oil. If you intend to heat up the frosting later, it would be a good time to add the cooking oil at this stage. The cooking oil protects the structure of the frosting and it helps to bind the frosting where the butter is too cold or not included.