Need Help With Attaching Royal Icing Flowers To Buttercream

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SherisEdibleDesigns Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 12:49pm
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I have to attach about 200 RI daisies to a buttercream cake. I've heard the grease from the buttercream breaks the royal icing down. I have to apply the flowers to the cake in the morning (7 or so ) and the cake will not even be seen or served until around 8ish in the evening. If I attached the flowers with royal icing will they stay? What else should I attach them with? Will piping gel hold them in place or will they slide? Will the buttercream destroy the flowers if it came in contact with them? HELP please!!!! Thanks

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MrsMissey Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 12:57pm
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I have attached RI flowers 24 hours in advance with no problems. I like to attach them with piping gel...it has worked well for me.

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TexasSugar Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 7:54pm
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Your flowers will be fine. You can even attach them with buttercream.

Grease is an enemy... WHEN MAKING your royal. We are drilled so hard when learning about royal to keep grease away, that people now believe that it should never touch it. If we couldn't put royal icing on cakes, why would it even be suggested to make it and use on cakes?

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peanut2 Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 8:23pm
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I've used royal icing on buttercream for over twenty years and I have never had a problem. I think a problem could arise, if they are not very well dried. I always have done mine in advance.

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mamafrogcakes Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 8:51pm
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I totally agree with what everyone has said--one other little tidbit is that the BC seems to make RI just slightly soft, maybe not so "crunchy". I tend to like this better too!

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PerryStCakes Posted 31 Oct 2005 , 9:36pm
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I agree - I remember when I first learned about RI - I was so scared to get anything near it with anything that ever touched grease - I was a lunatic. But that does just go for making it (I have had my royal icing separate on me - ahhhhh late nights...) B
But give it a whirl - it should be fine!

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SherisEdibleDesigns Posted 1 Nov 2005 , 2:27am
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thank you all so much for your help. I figured there would be no reason anyone would ever want to use Royal Icing if it couldn't touch any other icing.
I just wondered how those pretty wedding cakes with buttercream icing managed to have 5000 royal icing flowers on them and not look like one big blob, now i know. LOL thanks again

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stephanie214 Posted 1 Nov 2005 , 11:21am
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I use buttercream icing to attach my flowers with no problem.

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