How to Decorate Cakes With Frosting Pumpkins
You can make pumpkin cake decorations out of several types of frosting, including butter cream, fondant and royal icing. Sketch out where exactly you want your pumpkins. You can place them as borders, or in multiple spots so that each slice gets a pumpkin or simply make one large pumpkin that is split up into slices. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Gel coloring
- Cookie cutters
- Sharp knife
- Rolling pin
- Fondant icing
- Piping bag
- Butter cream frosting
- Paste food coloring
- Royal icing
- Star, round and ruffle tips
Instructions
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Separate your fondant icing into three sections. Knead black coloring into one section, green into the second and orange into the third. Roll out and use pumpkin cookie cutters to cut round sections from the orange dough. Section out eyes, noses and mouths from the black dough and green leaves and stems from the green dough with a sharp knife. Press these shapes where desired. Make sure your base icing is fondant as well for good adhesion. Appliques like this are easy to work with. You can remove them if you make a mistake
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Thicken a buttercream frosting with extra confectioner's sugar for piping. Color with a paste. Create a large textured pumpkin that covers the entire surface with the star tip.
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Create a border of small royal icing pumpkins. Royal icing colors easily with pastes or gels. Make sure it retains its form for about 5 seconds before piping. This icing takes a good 24 hours to dry. Use a round tip to make your pumpkins and a ruffle tip to connect them.
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References
- Photo Credit Pumpkin image by Elizabeth Jasmine from Fotolia.com
