While baking a cake is the very base, today people are more keen on seeing what are the kinds of designs that are being offered, and the more innovative and different the designs being offered, the more popular one tends to become, where cake orders are concerned. People in the cake making business are constantly working on improving their skills and also creating interesting free decorating ideas, which they share through various forums and publications.

One of the common types of designs is handwriting with icing. Irrespective of the design and pattern on the cake, and for that matter the shape of the cake; the most important aspect is the icing. And this needs a lot of practice, as one’s icing-writing needs to be legible.

Cake decorating schools do teach one how to write designs for icing. However, it is the practice that makes one better.

Given here is a basic method of icing-writing on cakes :

First and foremost one needs to prepare the icing. Most prefer to use butter-cream icing. This is prepared in the following way :

  • Requirements :
    1. Solid vegetable shortening
    2. Butter or margarine
    3. Vanilla extract
    4. Sugar
    5. Milk
    6. Food color
  • Method :
    1. Mix all the ingredients together in a mixer till it becomes a paste.
    2. Then put the paste into an icing tube or tip and then gently press the tube as you write over the cake.
One can also prepare and icing tube from a thin sheet of plastic paper. For this one needs to cut it into a square or triangular shape and roll it into a conical shape. One needs to tape it so that the paste does not pour of the sides. One can cut the tip in accordance to thickness of writing desired.