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Icing ice cubes?

post #1 of 8
4/22/08 at 9:43am
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I have to do a grooms cake that looks like a cooler of beer. How do you make the ice cubes?
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post #2 of 8
4/22/08 at 9:55am
I've never made one, but the first thing that comes to mind is that you could use clear gelatin in ice cube trays.
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post #3 of 8
4/22/08 at 9:57am
I'd look for one of the pictures from someone who has made one and IM them the question.

I think some have used rock candy but that is how I'd go about finding out. There are several on this site who have made them.
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post #4 of 8
4/22/08 at 10:05am
I made a beer cooler cake - I haven't posted it yet - I made my ice cubes out of clear jello. I used the jiggler recipe and they held up great when I made the cake for during the summer.
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post #5 of 8
4/22/08 at 10:06am
Hi there, I have used both knox and rock candy. My thoughts, Rock candy can be expensive and I did not think the look was right, I used the Knox and tried the ice cube trays and it did not set up so well, Then I used a square pan poured in the Knox about 1" deep and cut into cubes after it set.I found that this held up well,and after a test on the counter 18 hours it finally started to weep a little.was not worried about 4 or 5 hours on the cake. My ice cube cake is in my pics. Good luck.

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post #6 of 8
4/22/08 at 10:11am
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Wouldnt they get runny and melt into the cake?
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post #7 of 8
4/22/08 at 2:27pm
This is a very good question, I made a beer basket (posted in my pics) and I resulted to using ice cubes that I found at walmart, although they were very heavy and I had to be very careful when I positioned them so that the buttercream would not get so smushed (if that is a word icon_confused.gif ). I would think that the clear gelatin would melt on to the cake or at least flavor the icing a bit .
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post #8 of 8
4/23/08 at 5:22am
Nope, no melting or funny flavor, I put them on the cake at the reception at 12 noon and the cake was cut at 5:30 and was told that the cubes and cake both held up fine.

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