Can anyone give me any ideas on how to write something on a cake??...
I mean besides the usual Royal Icing, only because I just dont seem to have a steady hand....I've practiced a few times, but boy-oh-boy, its a little harder to master than I thought.

Can you only use icing to write something?

Thanks everyone!!

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-5858-writing.html

I found this thread to be VERY helpful.

Thank you sooo much!
I've been on the site searching ALL MORNING (my boss is gonna kill me!!)
and wasnt really able to find anything!

Thanks a bunch!

No problem. Hope it helps.

I'm terrible at writing on cakes so I tend to use chocolate letters or do a chocolate transfer.

The transfers are very very easy. Just use any font and adjust to what size you want it on your word processing program or publishing program. Print it out BUT set it so it prints in mirror image.

then just set up your paper (I use a huge wood cutting board) , put your plexiglass on top of the wording then put wax paper on top of that and pipe away with your chocolate.

I also use the letter molds too.

Just a different idea if you wanted to try it.

i do what Joshsmom does, with chocolate or candy coating. it allows you to pipe individual printed letters or words with connected script as many times as you like onto wax paper until it's perfect, and then you chill them in the fridge and slide an angled palette knife underneath (the little one is good for this) and place it on your cake...or even on the SIDE of your cake (the icing needs to be fresh, i.e. not crusted yet, for them to stick), or you can pipe rosettes and stand the letters up on them. you can also do any font of "block" lettering too, basically, you're making chocolate-coating colour-flow type pieces.

because the coating will set up in your piping bag, you will want to use parchment piping cones, so if you haven't learned to make those yet, get yourself a box of pre-cut triangles and practice -- when you're done with the piping, you just put the cone in the fridge, wait for the remaining coating to harden, and then peel off the cone and save the coating for next time.

I have a set of jem alphabet cutters which are wonderful to use with fondant or gum paste

I'm not sure if you are trying to avoid the royal icing or the piping directly onto the cake. If it's the latter, you can pipe royal icing onto wax paper, let it dry and then move it just as with the chocolte letters. This really takes the axiety out of writing for me, a I can do it until soemthing looks acceptable. I'm my own worst critic!

If it doesn't have to be lovely script, Wilton also makes a set of alphabet and number cutters that Michael's carries. That works great with fondant or gumpaste. I think it is about $14.00.

Cakes4fun, this may seem a little elementary, but it works for me, like you I don't have a steady hand when it comes to writing with bc icing. The lady I get most of my decorating supplies boxes and so forth told me if I would keep my elbows tucked in to my side it would steady my hand, and believe it or not it worked for me, hope this helps some