How do you put your royal icing lettering on your cake without sticking your fingers in the icing when you set them down??

~Heather

Very carefully! You could try sliding them off of a little spatula or something. I have done several cakes with RI letters, and I really havent gotten my fingers in the icing.

I put a little of the cake's icing on the back of each letter with tip #1 to "glue" it to the cake. Or, I have been known to use the "drop and pray it lands where I want it to" technique

tara