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Wedding Cake Decoration and Icing
Questions, Answers and Tips
Are you making a wedding cake and have a question about how to ice or decorate it? Perhaps you need help with choosing the appropriate icing or some ideas for decorations? If you've got a question, here's the place to ask it.
This page is for questions on decorating and icing wedding cakes, if you have a specific question on one of the following topics, ask your question there:
Wedding Cake Recipe and Baking Questions
Wedding Cake Assembly, Stacking and Transportation Questions
General Wedding Cake Questions
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Alternative To Marzipan
I'm making a three tiered wedding cake for my brother's wedding next July. I want to under-ice the tiers in order to get as smooth a surface as possible ...
Icing A Wedding Cake
The Best Icing For a Round Cake
I am making a 3 tiered wedding cake placed on separate boards on a ring stand. What is the best way of icing a wedding cake to get the right look, that ...
How To Colour Fondant Icing For My Wedding Cake
I want to create a pink wedding cake. How do I go about turning white sugarpaste into pink sugarpaste?
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How Much Marzipan And Fondant Icing For 10”, 8” And 6” Wedding Cakes
I am making 10", 8" and 6" fruit cakes for my daughter’s wedding. How much marzipan and fondant icing do I need? I am also making some butterflies to ...
What Is The Best Way To Attach A Ribbon To a Wedding Cake
I want to decorate each of my cake tiers using a ribbon, but I am not sure how I should do this? Can you help?
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What Is A Good Time Scale For Decorating A Wedding Cake?
Our fruit cakes are maturing nicely. Can you give me timeline of when to marzipan, how long to leave before fondant icing, and when to assemble? Thank ...
Chocolate Madeira Wedding Cake & Royal Icing Questions
I'm looking for a nice chocolate Madeira or chocolate marble Madeira cake recipe for a wedding cake. With a normal Madeira cake you can make it up to ...
Buttercream Icing Quanities For A Wedding Cake
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Someone has suggested that crusting buttercream icing on to a cake would be best for sticking chocolate cigarillos onto a three tier wedding cake. What ...
Icing Cakes With Chocolate Plastique And Sugarpaste
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Hi. Please help! I am making a three tier wedding cake - 12" chocolate sponge, 10" lemon cake and an 8" carrot cake? All are to be decorated with ...
Where Can We Find A Cheap Bride And Groom Topper
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We are looking for a cheap bride and groom topper, hopefully ones that look similar to us! We would be grateful for any help.
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Marzipan Freshness
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I’ve put marzipan on my wedding cakes and I will be applying the fondant icing in a few days time. I am aware I need to add alcohol or boiling water ...
Calculating Buttercream Quantities
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What buttercream quantities will I need to cover an 8" square, 4" deep cake?
Thanks Liz
How to apply wedding cake icing and marzipan
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How To Store A Wedding Cake With Marzipan And Fondant?
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How do I store a wedding cake that I have made. It is a fruit cake which has matured for a month I will be applying the marzipan today. Can you tell ...
Easy Way To Smooth Out Icing
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What is an easy way to smooth out the icing on the side of a wedding cake, can you use a warm spatula?? Any ideas please
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How Much Icing And Marzipan For A 12” 10” and 8” Square Cake
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I have made a 12”, 10” and 8” square fruit cake as my daughter’s wedding cake , but am not sure how much marzipan and icing I will need. Do I need more ...
Tips For Wedding Cake Decorations
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My mum has made a three tier wedding cake for my reception. But she doesn’t feel she is up to decorating the cake. Do you have any ideas and tips for ...
Overworked Buttercream
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My made ahead buttercream icing with a small amount of cream cheese is full of bubbles. What do I do to make it smooth?
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When To Fondant Ice A Wedding Cake
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I have made a rich fruit cake about five weeks ago for my wedding in August 2010, I have about three weeks until the wedding. I have now applied the ...
How Much Marizpan And Icing For 12", 10" and 8" Cakes
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How much marzipan and plastique icing do you need for a 3 tier wedding cake?
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Marzipan And Icing Timescale
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I'm icing my sister's wedding cake with ready to roll royal icing and will be putting a layer of marzipan on first. How long does the marzipan need to ...
Do I Need A Wedding Cake Topper On Each Tier?
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I’m having a 3 tier wedding cake but do I have to have a wedding cake topper on each cake? It will be going on a swan cake stand.
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When Can I Put Fondant Icing On?
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I am renewing my wedding vows on 3rd April. Can I bake my cake on the 1st April and then ice it that same night, then put my fondant on in the early ...
How To Paint A Pattern On A Wedding Cake?
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Hi, I'm making my friend's wedding cake in less than a month. She and her fiancee are both musicians and want a round cake with music all along the side....
When Should I Ice The Cake?
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I am making a wedding cake for my son's wedding. How long an interval is possible after putting on the marzipan icing before the royal icing is put on?...
Ready Rolled Icing For A Wedding Cake
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I am making my first wedding cake. It's going to be a fruit cake covered in marzipan and then royal icing. I want to know does it have ready to be roll ...
Icing A Mixed Three Tier Wedding Cake
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I am making a 3 tier wedding cake , bottom layer fruit the 2 other layers sponge. Should the sponge cakes be covered in marzipan like the fruit cake ...
Timescale For Icing A Wedding Cake
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I'm making my own wedding cake and I was wondering how long before the wedding should I ice my cake – I'm going to use either ready-rolled Royal icing ...
Decorating A Wedding Cake With Marshmallows
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How do I stick marshmallows to my tiered wedding cake?
How to apply wedding cake icing and marzipan
Simple wedding cake decorations
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