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Lucks Edible Image® Designer Prints™ help you make high-end cake designs with minimal work and the greatest results. Easy-to-use Designer Prints™ are available in edible strips that are 2 1/4″ wide by 10″ long or 3 1/2″ by 10″ long. The decorations are preprinted by way of edible food colors that retain color clarity and avoid color bleeding, even on high moisture applications. The patterns on the strips match up from one strip to the next, so a decorator can make use of the prints on equally small and large size cakes.
Designer Prints™ cut with ease and look fabulous on buttercream, fondant, chocolate and fudge. New Designer Prints™ sheets are 8 1/8″ by 10 1/8″ and can be utilized to cover any size or shape cake. General Recommendations for best results.
o For best results, utilize buttercream or Fondant icing.
o Use a razor type knife to tidy the white edges on the long ends of each designer strip prior to applying the Designer Prints™ on the cake.
o Return all images in the zipper bag from the moment they’re no longer required.
o Apply your Designer Prints™ sooner than your buttercream icing has formed a crust.
o If your buttercream has formed a crust, use a slight mist of plain water to moisten the icing therefore the Designer Prints™ will adhere to the cake.
o Trim the final strip while it continues to be attached to your backing strip to avoid excess.
o Use a razor type knife to trim the last strip from the bottom-up after applying it to the cake.
o While building tiered cakes, assemble cakes completely before starting to put on the decorations.
o To apply Designer Prints™ to fondant, moisten fondant with a brush and plain water only where the Designer Prints™ is going to be applied.
Lucks Designer Prints™ decorations allow you to easily add design to gum paste or fondant bows. It’s a good suggestion to perform your bow making technique with plain gum paste or fondant until you’ve got that part perfected. It is possible to always reroll your mistakes if you haven’t added colors or Designer Prints™ sheets yet.
1.Prepare your Designer Prints™ sheets ahead of time by trimming away the white edges all the way round the strip while it is still on the backing sheet. For best results use a Ribbon Insertion Tool· Return your Designer Prints™ sheets to their metalized pouch, and reclose until you’re ready to use.
2. Arrange the fondant or a fondant/gum paste mix.
3. Roll out fondant as thin as you’re able to work with.
4. Apply the Designer Prints™. If fondant or fondant/gum paste mix is still tacky, one can apply Designer Prints™ decorations without any additional moisture. If it isn’t tacky, use a brush and apply a very thin swipe of plain water to the fondant or fondant/gum paste mix where you’ll be placing the Designer Prints™ sheets. Be sure there are no puddles of water. You may also use your airbrush with plain water to dampen the surface.Place the Designer Prints™ sheets over the fondant or fondant/gum paste mix, face up. Press (don’t rub) to ensure the Designer Prints™ sheets have adhered.
5. Trim away excess.
6. Trim the Designer Prints™ sheets into one inch strips the long way of the strip.
7. Create loops with each strip. You’ll see how long to chop your strips by how big the bow you are making will be. Trim loops at the ends to a point. Shape the loops set on their sides to dry overnight.
8. Leave a few of the strips for the tails of the bow.
9. After pieces are dry you can assemble your bow with royal icing and let dry off the cake, or you may assemble your bow with royal icing then let dry on a piece of parchment overnight.
For additional help please visit our website, and we’ll be happy to discuss our cake decorating supplies.
Tags: cake decorating supplies, cake decorating supply, Edible Image, Gum Paste, rolled fondant
Posted in Baking · March 12th, 2010 · Comments (0)
By now I am sure that you’re aware: Cupcakes are the new hot thing within the bakery business. Cake Decoration Supplies companies have seen improved sales of cupcake display type products. Cupcakes are great to sell in this economy, because the customer does not have to buy a big cake, they can buy just a few cupcakes and save money. The cake itself in the cupcake is pretty much the same type batter as you’ll find in a regular cake.
The “cupcake pick” has been around for a long time. It originally started from the little paper U.S. flag that was attached to the end of the toothpick. The designs sure have changed however the concept will be same. Cupcake picks are made of plastic now, instead of wood and paper. They have been approved by the FDA to have contact with food, and are visibly marked if they do not pass the choke test. Normally, children under three shouldn’t handle these items as they pose a choking hazard. Instead of picks, bakeries can choose cupcake rings. The rings are placed on the top, and acts as a souvenir once the cupcake has been eaten.
Manufacturers have developed cupcake display stands. A few of these stands can hold up to 84 cupcakes at a time. The stands differ in price from $15 each to hundred of dollars apiece. They are made from cardboard, wood, and plastic. One of the best selling stands is called the Treat Tree™ and is manufactured by Bakery Crafts®. With the Treat Tree™ you can create thousands of themes and add a fresh flair to any function. The stand is easy to assemble, produced from food grade polystyrene, and are disposable. I like the unit since it is also grease and moisture resistant plus very lightweight. Another good thing about cupcake stands is that, not just do they hold cupcakes, they can be used to hold other small items for example petit fours, hors d’ oeuvres’, or other specialty cakes. Treat Trees™ are sold at shops that sell Rolled Fondant.
Cupcake candles are just making their appearance in our market. They’re 3 1/4″ in height and are made specifically to sit on a cupcake. Both varieties of candles that I’ve seen thus far are present shaped candles and candles that look exactly like a cupcake! Various small Edible Image® are being developed for cupcakes. Edible Image® is an edible product similar to a decal, produced from starches that peel off a backing sheet and applied to a baked item’s icing. The image on the Edible Image® melds into the icing for an incredible expert look.
Packaging for cupcakes has changed as well. I’ve seen tiny boxes which will hold a single cupcake, double boxes, and clear clamshell packaging. A neat item that has been developed by Bakery Crafts® is something called Treat Wraps™. They’re different designed wraps that fit around the cupcake liner. The Treat Wraps™ add style and class to cupcakes, are reversible, and low priced. For extra information please visit our on line store.
Tags: cake decorating supplies, decorating a cake, Gum Paste, rolled fondant, Wilton
Posted in Baking · March 11th, 2010 · Comments (0)