I found a great Celtic font I wanted to do my daughter's name in and I just can't get these things to work. Not the best font to use but the letters, enlarged, seemed chunky enough. I still see some thinner spots, what is the right way to do these, do you have to thin down the icing after outlining? I outlined then filled in the letters, should I not have done that? First time I did BC and have better luck handling Royal but my results aren't much better. I'm using a #3..or is it #2...tip. I like this idea but I can't get it...my writing on cakes stinks!

By the way, getting a smooth line isn't easy for me, either--crooked isn't good. Is there a technique? I tried to get close to the paper, increase pressure, back off the paper....UGH!

I don't have a lot of experience with royal icing but I've done a few royal icing letter transfers. I am rarely happy with my handwriting so I either use the presses, candy melts or royal icing transfer letters most of the time. I am not sure about the font you have chosen but if it has really thin lines, you need the icing to be pretty thick so it won't spread. I found that it works best if you try not to put a lot of pressure on bag. Every time I do, the icing tends to curl around my tip and not go where I want it to. I would try using tip 1 for the thin parts of your letter. You will probably have to play around and see what works best with the font you have chosen. Maybe even try using a medium consistency and not outline, just use that for the whole letter.

Good Luck!!

Hope that helps.

For fonts I always do the piping gel transfer technique and then write the letters directly on to the cake. Here's a tutorial on how to do it.

http://www.bakedecoratecelebrate.com/techniques/transferringpatterns.cfm?cat=6


Good luck!

Are you piping directly on the cake or using royal and letting it dry then placing it on the cake?

ooppsss totally forgot to tell you that I print what I want to write on paper and then place that under parchment paper. I pipe the royal icing on the parchment paper and let it dry. Make extras in case you break some. After it dries for 12 to 24 hours you can put your transfers on the cake. I have piped royal icing directly on a cake before but like usually I can't get my letters to look like I want them to.