Decorating cakes with edible icing sheets can produce some of the most amazing and beautiful cake art. Using different kinds of prints and making cutouts from them to enhance the appearance of your cake is always a good idea. However, do you know that there are so much more you can do with frosting sheets other than to print images on them?
Icing sheets are in all aspects like ordinary printer papers, except of course they are edible. Therefore, you have the liberty to make art on them with different kinds of edible mediums like edible colors, edible pens, edible markers, etc.
Creating art on sugar sheets gives a more handmade feel to the overall decoration and let you work on more intricate designs that might not be achieved to satisfaction when you print an image on them. Here are a few ways you can decorate icing sheets with manual methods:
Using Edible Markers
This is one of the easiest ways to draw on the icing sheets. All you need to do is to make the desired shapes and figures on the sheet with edible ink markers, cut out that shape or figure, and use it on the cake surface in the similar way you would paste a printed frosting sheet on the cake by peeling off the backing paper.
Using Food Colors
Get a new set of drawing brushes (all new), a few bottles of food colors and unleash the artist within you. Whether it is calligraphy, caricature, or any other kind of artwork, dip your brush in the food color and get going. The good quality food colors dry fast, hence, it is advisable to use the same for better results.
Adding Edible Pearls
One of the best things about frosting sheets is that they are compatible with several other edible items like for example, edible pearls. Once you are done with drawing your favorite cartoon characters on the icing sheet with edible pens or markers, decorate it with multicolor edible pearls. You can use edible glue to stick the pearls on the sheets in any pattern you want. It will surely enhance the look of your cake tenfold.
Sprinkle with Edible Glitters
You can use multicolored edible glitters to further enhance your artwork on the icing sheet. The glitters add depth to the drawing, making your cake look awesome than ever. The glitters can be stick to the paper with edible glue.
Airbrush and Color Sprays
Top the airbrush or color spray with your favorite edible color and sprinkle the sugar sheet with different shades. You can move the spray to give different depths to the artwork. These icing sheets are visually captivating.
When it comes to decorating a cake with edible icing sheets, the possibilities are numerous, and you can increase it tenfold by decorating the cake with pre-decorated frosting sheets.
