Hi Guys,
Noticed some recent SugarVeil questions and wanted to provide some answers:
You mix SugarVeil by beating with an electric mixer it will change from off-white in color to glossy white white. For more instructions, see http://www.sugarveil.com/confectionery_icing/icing_instructions.htm
You can mix up one cup of SugarVeil at a time - it goes a very long way. To give you an idea, one bag (l lb.) will make about 160 - Lace cake 6 cake tops. You can download this lace design at http://www.sugarveil.com/icing_dispenser/design_patterns.htm. If you don't have a SugarVeil Icing Dispenser, trace the lines with SugarVeil in a parchment cone, or in a piping bag with the smallest tip you have, onto greased (using Crisco-type fat, not spray oil) parchment or cellophane.
When spreading SugarVeil into paper-thin sheets for punching, use 1 cup SugarVeil to 1/3 cup plus 2 Tbl. boiling water. There are new photos posted on our home page at www.sugarveil.com from the instructional article "Flower Faces" in the April/May American Cake Decorating magazine. Here's a photo of one of them (below) - all the details are punched with papercraft punches (the eyes, mouth, etc are scraps from the punched shapes).
Taste-wise, SugarVeil is mildly sweet and fairly neutral in flavor, so you can add flavors, if you like. Colors, too - liquid, paste, or powder (mix the powder into SugarVeil before adding water).
For making very easy, precise monograms, I just smooth SugarVeil over monogram stencils. Really nice monograms stencils are available at www.designerstencils.com.
Feel free to contact me if you have any SugarVeil questions at [email protected] - I'll be happy to field them all. Thanks! Emily at SugarVeil
Didn't know Sugarveil had so many uses-good to know. Would love to have the air pen- just too $$.
Yes, you can use dusts with SugarVeil in a couple of different ways: mix with alcohol and paint or airbrush onto set SugarVeil (this is especially nice using stenciled scrolls of SV), or you can use the dusts dry and dust onto partially set SugarVeil - the SugarVeil will grab the dust. For an example, look in the cake gallery on our site at www.sugarveil.com - the Madame du Pompadour cake is wrapped with gold dusted lace.
Thank you emilyg. I think sugar veil is just what I am looking for to achieve the idea I have in my head I want to create. My only worry is that I will have to do it without the dispenser but but I definitely think it's worth the try. You have been a big help. That's a pretty awsome product for sure. Amazing really!
Sunny, you really don't need the dispenser - the SugarVeil Icing is what's important (and the DVD might be helpful for you to see, too). You just need to have very very fine lines. Try using a parchment cone, and cutting the smallest possible tip from the bottom. Fill it with a small amount of SugarVeil (so you can operate it within the palm of your hand). Go for it - you'll have a ball. And we're here to help you in any way we can, should you have any questions along the way. Have fun! EmilyG
I just bought the dvd and the despenser kit and 10 lb bucket of sv and I have been playing with and plan to use it alot!!! This stuff is great. If you can, get the dvd, it explains it all and is very helpful when using the icing for first time.
I have been really struggling with scroll work, etc. using royal icing and small number tips (#1; #2).
Is the sugar veil icing easier for embroidery work (like Toba Garrett's for example)?
Thanks for posting this information!
Hi MJS,
Yes, you'll be able to get incredibly fine detail with SugarVeil on cookies both by piping and stenciling. In our cake gallery at http://www.sugarveil.com/gallery/small_cakes.htm are two examples - (lower left photo): The "gift" is a 2" high cake cube covered with a thin sheet of SugarVeil spread thinly onto a silicone mat. When set, the sheet was stenciled with an extremely fine Japanese kimono stencil, and then assembled into the box shape which enclosed the cake. The tie at the top is SugarVeil combed into strings.
(upper left photo): The second photo is a group of petits fours, iced with poured SugarVeil buttercream (recipe on our site at www.sugarveil.com), and then decorated with colored SugarVeil applied with the Icing Dispenser (you can also use a parchment cone with the tip snipped just a wee bit). The detail possible is amazing, plus it's easy on the hand since SugarVeil flows so easily. Let me know if I can be of further help - emily g
I just wanted to thank Emilyg and the sugarveil people for being so helpful when I wrote and asked questions and for getting my stuff so quickly to me, thanks again for the personal service.
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