Cake Decorating Term Glossary Letter I

Ice Cream Milk, cream and a sweetening agent are the ingredients that make one of the world's favorite desserts.

Icing Comb A plastic triangle with toothed or serrated edges; used for texturing icings.

Icing Pearls  To pipe icing "pearls" on your cake, fit a round-holed icing tube (a #3-5 works fine) onto a pastry bag. Then, simply coat the inside of the pastry bag with clear piping gel before loading the pastry bag with icing. Fill one side of the bag with white icing, the other side with some pink icing. When you squeeze and release, glistening "pearls" of icing are formed.

Icing Runout A name used for the technique of "running" Royal Icing into a pattern or pre-traced design which has been prepared for "running out". It runs out because it's so thin. Same as Flood work, Color-Flo.

Iridescent Powders These give cakes and decorations a Pearle scent finish.