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Types of Cake Icing
The two basic types of icing for decorative work are the hard-setting royal icing and the softer fondant paste, with its several variations. Frostings are dealt with in the section on Simple Icings.Royal icing is made from a mixture of egg white and pure icing sugar. It is the only icing suitable for the more elaborate tube work and sugar flower-making.
Fondant icing is simple to make and easy to apply. The result is a smooth, even surface on a cake, entirely without brush or knife marks. When used in place of almond paste for an undercoat it may be combined with desiccated coconut and flavored with almond essence, or it may simply be flavored with almond essence alone, or else with orange flower water.
Similar to fondant icing but this is recipe is more suitable for bigger flowers and lilies.