Guest blog by B-Twin

Making a Wedding Cake

 

Part 1B: The Cake – Covering

Continuing on from Part 1A – Baking we now move to covering the cake. The purpose of covering the cake in this case is to make the cake a suitable base for decorations.

There are several common ways to cover cakes. The term "icing" (as a noun) gets flung about very easily. It could mean ganache (chocolate + cream), basic icing (icing sugar + water), frosting (icing sugar + milk/water + butter etc), fondant (icing sugar + glucose syrup + other s...