If you want to make your own frosting for your cake, it’s very easy – with only 3 ingredients. In this article, we’ll show you how it works and also give you a few helpful tips.
Make cake glaze yourself – Here’s how
For the cake glaze, you need 250 milliliters of water, 1 tablespoon of potato starch, and 1.5 tablespoons of sugar.
- First, mix the dry ingredients together, and then add a few tablespoons of water to make a paste. It is best to use a whisk for this.
- Then bring your remaining water to a boil in a saucepan. Once the water is boiling, add the starch mixture and stir in.
- Let everything boil for about half a minute and then quickly pour the frosting over your cake.
- Tip: You can also use corn starch instead of potato starch.
Cake glaze: The best tips
Icing is an important part of all fruit cakes. It ensures that the fruit and the cake combine and also gives the cake a nice shine. It also protects the fruit from drying out.
- You can also color the cake glaze, for example with some food coloring.
- If you want a specific taste, you can use fruit juice instead of water.
- This alternative is also suitable if you want to give the cake glaze a different color. Currant juice, red grapes, or raspberry juice, for example, are perfect.
- If you want a light-colored cake glaze with flavor, you can use light-colored apple juice instead of water.
- Tips: If you don’t want to use a cake glaze, drizzle some lemon juice over the fruit and eat the cake after 2 hours at the latest. Or you put the jam over the fruit. It also keeps the fruit fresh and protects it from drying out.