Ice or cake icing, is an ingredient of pastry, with which some sweets are covered to make them more attractive, forming a glossy layer on the dessert or to enhance the taste of the past.
The cake glazes are divided into 2 large families, colant icings or pasta.
Copper glass
They are creamy consistency glazes that allows to be poured on the sweet and smeared through the use of a Spatula, one of the most known colanti icings, the real glaze that has a sugar base with the addition of a liquid that can be simply water or something that serves to give a taste very precise to the icing.
Glasses in paste or sugar paste
The sugar paste or paste glazes is a kind of glaze with a much harder consistency than the colanti icings, it could be said “plasticous”, for this reason for use first it must be smoothed through a mat and after can be used to cover cakes, for this reason they are very much used in the world of cake design.
It is composed essentially of icing sugar with the addition of glucose and gelatin (or egg whites) to make it elastic and a small amount of water.
With this kind of paste as well as making covers, you can create decorations like flowers, letters or puppets.
How to make homemade cake frosting?
Recipe for white glaze for cakes
The white glaze is the type of basic glaze to give a touch of brilliance to your own desserts. The recipe that we will now see can be customized with food dye or with aromas to give different colors or tastes.
So, we take 2 tablespoons of water and heat them in a pot by pressing the boiling point, at this point add the sugar to the veil (100g) previously sifted and mixed until a viscose consistency, in case it stays too liquid add a little sugar to the veil, in the contrary case a little water.
Our icing is over and ready to be used like this, or adding some food colorants to make it the colored glaze.
Glass paste (sugar paste)
We take the gelatin in sheets (6gr) and we put soak in cold water until it softens. At this point squeeze the gelatin and put it in a pot with 1 tablespoon of honey and cook on low heat. Then sift the sugar to the veil (300gr) in a container and add the mixture of honey and gelatin.
Knead with a planetary obtaining a crumbled compound, add a spoon of water and work it until you get a homogeneous compound. sugar paste is ready, to be modeled, move the dough onto a sprinkled sugar cutter and in case you want to color it just add a few drops of food coloring.
Glass for cakes where to buy it?
Now there is nothing left but to get rid of the best decorating their own sweets.
You can buy online and our cake glaze lemon, strawberry, chocolate or our sugar paste on our online shop.
