What lies inside the tube?

Icing is an art and not very long ago people had to shed hard labour in their kitchens to prepare the icings, especially when they had to cover or decorate 10+ pounds. 

We’d rather say that people of our time are saved from those hassles. We can just pick and choose ready-made icing tubes in a range of colours and flavours.
 
Of course, you should pick good quality stuff so that you can get the icing free-flowing. Also try to buy packs that come with two or three decorating nozzles. 

Besides, be careful to buy products that are free of any artificial colour, flavour and harmful hydrogenated fat. 

But do you know what lies inside the icing tube? Of course, you have an idea if you have seen your mother or grandmother working in the kitchen. If you have missed that experience, then please go through. 

Icing is nothing but a creamy glaze made of sugar. To make it taste better and premium we add egg yolk, butter, cheese, chocolate or any special flavour. There are many kind of icings—

• Glace Icing is made of powdered sugar and water. Most of the common coloured icings are glace icings since adding colour or flavour to this mixture is easy.

• Royal Icing is prepared by beating egg white and powdered sugar. It’s a kind of hard icing which we get to see in Christmas cakes or Wedding cakes. It is used as a smooth covering or to design sharp peaks.

• Fondant, which is commonly used to design ribbons on wedding cakes or birthday cakes, is made of heated water and sugar. To make rolled fondants we use stabilizers like Gelatin.

• Ganache is made by heating cream and then adding chopped chocolates.

• Marzipan is made of sugar and almond meal. Once it used to be an essential part of cake decorations but nowadays due to increasing cases of nut allergies, people are avoiding it.

• Couverture Chocolate is a special kind of icing that contains high percentage of cocoa butter.

• Besides, nowadays many cake decoration supplies sell glitter gels in icing tubes. And those are not at all costly.