Silhouette Icing
This type of decoration will make a simple unusual topping for children's
party cakes, and subjects may be chosen from characters in nursery rhyme books,
flowers, animals or birds.
Trace the shape on to a piece of thin cardboard and cut out to make a
stencil, making outlines simple and clear.
Sift some icing sugar on the stencil or cut-out on top of the cake or sift over
some cocoa through a fine sieve. For this, a coffee strainer may be used, it
makes an ideal substitute.
Lift the stencils off very carefully. If this operation has been carried out
properly, there will be a perfect pattern top.
- Silhouette Icing: Trace the desired shape on to thin cardboard and cut
out to make a stencil.
- Cover the top of the un-iced cake with sifted icing sugar, and place the
stencil over this.
- Sift cocoa through a fine sieve over the stencil. A coffee strainer may
be used for the sifting.
- Be very careful in lifting off the stencil or the pattern will be spoilt
by blurred outlines.
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