right this is what we call royal icing oh you need to turn the turntable with one hand andpaddle the icing with the other so as you do we do small paddles and then onceyou've gone around once you can see that the icing, the air bubbles will havedisappeared almost so the next stage is then to use astraight edge so if you're fantastic at plasteringyou'll be marvelous that doing royal ice cakes so with the same edge of thestraight edge you then do it back and forth to try andstill eliminate the air bubbles and then
when you think it's ready take it off and you've got a nice smoothsurface so always clean as go because you never know what goes wrong if you don't clean yourtools, so clean up the sides just so that we've got a nice cleansurface again because royal icing dries very hard basically it's the only icing what isbrittle so from now we're going to do the sides ideally it's good to actuallyleave it to dry in between but today i'll show you the all in method sounfortunately you can't see me paddling is exactly the same as the top
all the way around to disperse the airbubbles again and then you will see it becomes a nicer surface so this time instead of using a straightedge we're going to use the side scraper that and create a similar edge so this one makes you feel veryuncomfortable but you have to do in one motion otherwise you will get lines in youricing and then you need another side scraper to just take off the bottom edge
as the royal icing cake should takeabout two or three coats individually of the top and side called so once you'vedone that with the side squared back just neaten the edge so that the nextstage of royal icing will go on smoothly so this cake is actually going to havesome royal ice scrolls on the top and the bottom so to stop it you wouldnormally use a template but today we're just going to just freestyle just to get a rough measurement for s andc scrolls i've done this this far too many times measurements so when you actually doa scroll
you have to roughly put pressure on butkeep the constant pressure but gradually build up the pressure to lessen thepressure which i will demonstrate so that is a an s scroll so as you can see go all the way aroundfor you markings some of the markings up covered up but that's fine becausetechnically an s scroll is three times bigger than a c scroll so we just needto add in the c scroll ok so once you've gone around well thenprepare the next stage which is a scrape pipe the scrape pipe type allows the next stageto go on smoothly of royal icing so with the
scrape pipe you actually introduced theshape enhance the shape what you've already got so as you can see it shows a nice shapenow so go all the way around to get when youscrape pipe you you're not actually scraping right intothe actual scroll you're just hovering over the top and if you lay on the ice in a dewdroppiping you will see holes appear through the actual scroll so that's thefirst stage next stage put the next layer on to also enhanceand this is drop piping
this is so that it appears smooth lines so always overlap on to the next scrollbecause everything needs to be joined so cake like this only takes a matter ofmoments once you master the technique and you can do small scrolls you cando everything just these couple of tubes the last one so as you can see nice shape to that so we're going tostart from the bottom and to do a half moon scroll
so the measurements what we have fromthe top we're going to do some mirror at thebottom back to the actual star group to createa half moon which is a graduated barrel so you start off then graduate biggerand then when you hit the middle you need to graduate smaller so then once you've done this layer then you also scrape pipe which also creates a smooth the surface so then scrape pipe
to create a shape like before and then the next layer can go on we're going back to the plain tube to droppipe to give more shape and then in a moment we will put a colour on so we will put the colour on next andthen we will finish off the cake give it a slight bit of colour just to enhance exactly what you've done previously so you can see that lifts out your shape
the drop piping once again shows a nicesmooth line so the secret is balancing up thepressure because if you don't squeeze hard enough then the pressure will break also if you're too quickfor the tube the pressure will break so it's a nice even balance between thepressure is squeezing and obviously the speed you were going from there that's creating a reallypretty cake so it's also enhance a royal ice cake you can put graduation lines on to agraduation line is what you put in the
middle - obviously enhance the shape of thescrolls and it all fits together i'll just finish off the botton all the way around it always have it at the front of youbecause then it you won't go off with the measurement last one from that we're now going to introduce arope pipe on the side so from this you don't need no templates oranything because you following the guide
of your scroll the secrets of this is obviously evenpressure and also the speed again so follow up and down with the scrollsjust over the edge of the cake and then in between that just to enhance again we would use the plain tube to then do asmall barrel but a plain barrel - all the way around stop and start where you feel necessaryand then latch back on and then we're going to repeat thattechnique at the bottom just to get these bottom half moon barrels alittle bit of balance between the top
and the bottom of the cake occasionally might get an air bubble sojust put a little bit of icing into it that's it step so i'm just going to showyou two lines of the graduation lines you would normally traditionally dothree because it just enhances it a little bit more so always start with the line above yourc scroll all the way around so it's easier to do this part and to doit as you go we do as you go when you start losingthe shape you just following the shape again all ofyour scrolls
and it just enhances it still drop piping as that creates asmooth line and then once you've done this you repeat one line next to ideallysupposed to repeat rape shape two lines today and if you do get an air bubble straighten it out and then i can justcontinue to pipe that line and now we're just going to leave alittle bit of colour next to and also on top of the line but his piped for thisline you don't need to do any particularorder so stop and start because then thatgives a nice sharp line and it needs to
be a true thickness in between soalready that's created a nice sharp enhancement to your scrolls which match yeah before you know it you're almost done lots of practice is needed when it comesto graduation lines should go from short line to a big line so the last line so pipe on top ofthe original line what you have piped so the secret to drop piping is take aquarter off the line what needed if i have a drop pipe in the air
i know to stop pressure about here andthen another line will fit almost there so it's always wipe your tube as well inbetween because that stops the icing from drying and also if there's anyother excess icing on the outside that will create your tube to have problems so already that looks like good cake so i think the next stage is to justgive it a little inscription i think we'll choose happy birthday
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