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Hi I'm Jemma Wilson from Crumbs and Doilies cupcakes and in this video I'm going to show
you how to make royal icing from scratch and then you can use that icing to decorate your
cupcakes even cooler! I've got 400g of sifted icing sugar and 15g
of powdered egg white and then I'm going to add cold water gradually. We'l just turn it
onto the minimum speed. And I'm going to start with four tablespoons and just give it a bit
of mix and see how it goes. You kind of really need a stand alone mixer to stand there with
your hand mixer will take ten minutes, 15 minutes and it might be a bit well boring!
You can see it start to come together a little bit. I'm just going to increase the speed
a little bit, just to get a beat of beating going on. What you want is like a stiff peak.
I can tell it's ready because it's nice and white and it's got nice stiff to medium peaks
in there. You see? So we'll whack that in a bowl. You've got to be quite careful with
royal icing because it dries really, really quickly. I'm going to put it in an airtight
container straight away. Now we can get ready for our piping extravaganza. The first thing
we need to do is to prepare your piping bag and I'm going to use a disposable piping bag,
it's quite a small one. So snip the end off and pop your piping nozzle in. There's quite
a lot of extra action going on at the back here so I'm just going to trim the back off
like this. Turn it inside out like thsi so I dont make a mess. I'm going to use a number
2 nozzle, it's really versatile and ideal for writing and basic drawing and stuff. I'm
just going to pop it in the bottom and give it a little tug. So the royal icing that you
made easlier is all safe and sound and tucked up in its' little bowl. I'm just going to
take a nugget of it. Just a small golf ball size and just whack it in a another bowl maybe
a tiny bit extra for good measure. I'm going to use a paste to colour it. You can use liquid.
Liquid is more readily available that's what it's got going for it. But because it's liquid
it's going to loosen up your icing so it will completely change. So we use colour paste
here. I'm going to use mint green because it's really nice. A little goes a long way
it's super concentrated that much will do I reckon. Give it a little wiggle. Once the
colour's all even all the way through it's time to pop it in the piping bag.
So just gather it all up with your spoonula. There it is and now it just needs to go into
the piping bag. Just pop it right down tot he bottom and then kind of create a collar
with your hand and just wipe all the excess icing off. And then bring back the bit you
folded back over and then you want to twist and kind of push sop that all the icing is
all down at the nib. I've put the twist over my knuckle and that way also I can kind of
squeeze form the top and everything will just go down instead of trying to escape from the
other side. I've just got a bit of greaseproof paper here and we're just going to use that
to pipe on just to give a bit of practice. And I really think you should do this too,
just to give a bit of practice and really help you understand who to control your piping
bag. its handing t have a napkin close by so that you can clean your nib by squeezing
and wiping at the same time. I'm just going to show you basic lines for
now. You can to make a connection at the beginning and the end but the middle bit have it about
a centimetre away from the surface and gentle pull and squeeze at the same time. Then lay
the kind of piece of string wherever you like and need it to go and end it with a little
***. With dots you want to be vertical with your piping tube. Finish it with a down and
up motion. If you don't you'll end up with a nasty little kink. What you want to do is
squeeze it and pop it in. So the third shape you'll make will probably be a curve and again
you want to start with a connection bring it off the surface, because you're gently
squeezing and not pulling to fast you can use this like it's a piece of string and just
drop it down wherever you want and whenever you're finished with what your doing just
end it like that. So they are the three main shapes that you'll
be using with a piping tube so let's get them on a cake.
So when you're writing the same thing applies making a connection at the top and the bottom
or the left or the right of the letter. Now here's our wiggly bit using the string method.
And then I'm going to follow the curve of the cake to write Food Tube on the bottom
here. That means I'm going to have to turn my cake every now and again just so I can
keep looking at what I'm doing straight on. So there it is, a really cute decorated cupcake
using royal icing. Practice, practice practice. You could be doing things like this which
was all royal icing on butter cream using different sized nozzle. So a smaller one for
the top there um a thicker one for the bottom and the filling.
So yeah it's really versatile so you can make your cakes looks amazing. So if you like this
video and want to see more. Don't forget to subscribe. Thanks very much for watching I'll
see you later.