Canned icing is not ideal for piping. It has a great consistency for spreading on a cake. You may be able to get it thick enough to pipe simply by adding confectioners sugar to it. Try adding 1/4 cup at first and mixing it in. In order to pipe, it should be thick enough to stand up on top of a spoon. Some decorations such as roses require much thicker icing. I wouldn't even try to do them with canned icing. But, if you have confectioner's sugar on hand, you're better off just making icing from scratch.
You add bubblegum extract to the icing sugar.
They decorate a cake. This could be anything from icing, carving, filling, or decorating with icing, fondant, designs, and so on.
Using white icing you will have to add blue food coloring to it.
You would not add any color to black to make grey icing, and once enough black coloring is added to reach a truly black icing, the only way to lighten it to grey would be to mix a tiny bit of the black icing into a great deal of white icing. The proper way to make grey icing is to simply add a very few drops of black to white icing to obtain the desired shade of grey.
yes, but you may need to add more icing sugar to make it thick enough :)
To make icing thicker, you can add more powdered sugar or cornstarch to the mixture until you reach your desired consistency.
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Do you mean what is icing for a cake? Well basically to make icing from scrath you start off the same no matter what you make cake, cookies... etc butter and powered suger you have to make it be the consistency you want also add some Vanilla you made add some butter if you wish. If you would like chocolate just add chocolate now other icing like cream cheese I have no idea.
To make buttercream icing thicker, you can add more powdered sugar or reduce the amount of liquid ingredients like milk or cream. This will help to achieve a thicker consistency for your icing.
Red mixed with a little water will make a pink color. If you are making icing, add a drop of two of red food coloring to white icing in order to turn the icing pink.
icing sugar about a teaspoon of butter and boiling water - different amounts of sugar and water for different consistencies (thickness's) and amount of icing of course and add some cocoa for chocolate icing and an essence for flavoured icing although i find icing to be sweet enough!