1) When should they be placed before, after or during cooking?
Absolutely after cooking our cake or dessert, sugar with heat would melt.
2) Where can I buy ready sugar decorations or characters?
You can buy them online at our store, allpasticceria.it you will find hundreds of characters or sugar decorations Seasonal uniforms (Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s Day, Halloween), Event ( Marriage, Anniversary, Baptism, Graduate, Confirmation, Communion, Birthday, eighteenth ), cartoon characters for children and boys ( Disney characters, Marvel), all to make your sweet, biscuit or cake unique.
3) How do you attach decorations on a cake, cake or cookies?
There are several methods to paste decorations on our dessert, much depends on what we have to adhere to our decoration.
For traditional cakes, cookies that are all those desserts that do not have a glaze you can use a little honey or a solution of water and sugar ( little water and much sugar) or
still fused dark chocolate to use as a glue.
For cakes covered by sugar paste you can simply use a drop of water the sugar will do the rest.
Can I use jelly to attach sugar decorations?
Sure, the jelly is fine.
sugar paste: how can you attach the pieces of decorations among themselves?
It is very well the same system used to attack the characters of sugar on the cakes, then solution of water and sugar or honey.
4) How to store decorations and objects in sugar paste?
Sugar decorations, precisely because of sugar have a very long storage time, if you preserve correctly
they do not dry and do not get unleashed and do not go to bad, the important thing is to put them in an airtight container to prevent them from getting polluted, in a cool place (the heat could melt them ) and away from the light that could make them discolor in the long (they can also exceed the year of conservation quietly).
In case of long storage, do the decorations remain edible?
Sugar decorations never become edible or toxic, but sugar becomes harder and harder so, better remove decorations to avoid
Break some teeth.
5) How long before the decorations are to be prepared sugar paste?
As we have seen the decorations resist in time, but in the case of decorations and creations in general in sugar paste fresh it is better to wait a day
since they prepare, so that they dry a little and are more resistant.
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How to attach sprinkles and sugar decorations
On icing, whipped cream or a still-soft coating, add the sprinkles gently and let the surface hold them. On dry biscuits or cakes, use a small amount of honey, water-and-sugar syrup, melted chocolate, food gelatine or edible glue.
Should sprinkles go on before or after baking?
For the decoration covered in this guide, add them after baking once the cake is cool. This prevents the heat from melting or distorting the sugar.
Sugar decorations and wafer sheets are different
These tips concern sprinkles and small sugar-paste pieces. For edible images and wafer paper, see our guide on attaching wafer sheets to cakes.
Safety note
Do not use raw egg as glue on a ready-to-eat cake. Choose one of the edible alternatives above; if an uncooked recipe requires egg, use pasteurised products as recommended by the FDA.
