you could use any kind really. royal, satin, butter-cream, or even whip cream. if you are going for a more elegant look try using royal and/or satin. royal icing is easy to get smoothed onto the cake. whip cream will leaves air bubbles, won't go on smooth, and has tendency to melt. hope this helped! (:
Baking , Fondant, and Corn Syrup
Fondant is your friend! You can buy ready-to-use rolled fondant at Michael's craft stores or any place that sells Wilton baking supplies. Tint some purple (knead the color into the fondant) and roll it out to make the cloth. Shape it as desired. Tint more of it brown for the crown of thorns, roll it into logs and braid it. You can use the Wilton cross-shaped pan, but since it is beveled it may not give the effect you are looking for. You can also easily cut a rectangular cake into the right shape. Be sure to crumb-coat it well (putting a thin layer of thinner frosting on to seal in all the crumbs) before frosting. I would use either chocolate frosting or vanilla buttercream tinted brown for the cross. Use a knife or metal spatula to add texture to the frosting so it looks like wood. After frosting, add the fondant decorations. Your "cloth" will need to be in three sections (one across the middle, and one hanging down on either side) because it will be nearly impossible to run it in one piece under the decorated cake.
No, you don't. You decorate them after they're done baking and cooled.
I think that baking before are more traditional like using stone fire to cook the traditional breads and pastries whereas today, the oven replaces this. In terms of recipes, there are also more updated and more complex creations today than before. An example would be the birth of fondant icing as compared to the traditional icing that is used to decorate cakes.
Chocolate frosting is a common recipe in many baking books. Better Homes and Gardens, All-American Desserts, Blue-Ribbon Country, and The Best Bake Sale Ever are all popular baking books that carry several recipes for chocolate frosting.
Grocery stores (large supermarkets), specialty stores, baking supply stores.
baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, flour, cocoa powder, icing sugar, fondant icing sugar, ground ingredients eg ground cinnamon, paprika ect. hope that was helpful
Yes. However, you probably won't find very high quality baking chocolate. It shoudl work to get you by!
oil milk eggs choclate frosting brown sugar extract baking powder sprinkle
frosting icing baking
you can make a baking soda volcanoes and paint and decorate it for a project
You should probably begin baking early in the week (Monday or Tuesday) and then freeze the cakes so that they stay. To ice or decorate them, you should begin and Friday.