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Icing For Ceramic Gingerbread


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I would take some porcelain scrap and make it a slip and add a bunch of toilet paper to make paper clay.If you have any molochite (porcelain grog) add that or glomax (calcinated whiting) to help reduce excessive shrinkage.

 

Marcia

Thanks, Marcia. I just made an extra large damp box where I can place the gingerbread house after assembly and decoration to even out the humidity of the house.

 

Jed

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I used to own a bakery and learned to decorate cakes for birthdays and weddings. A pipping bag will work just as well with a heavy slip and will allow you to make any type of decoration that is used on a cake. There are all kinds of tips you can use.

 

Just practice on a plaster batte and scoop the slip back into the container when you are finished. Look up the pipping techniques on  u-tube and in a couple of hours you will be up and running.

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I used to own a bakery and learned to decorate cakes for birthdays and weddings. A pipping bag will work just as well with a heavy slip and will allow you to make any type of decoration that is used on a cake. There are all kinds of tips you can use.

 

Just practice on a plaster batte and scoop the slip back into the container when you are finished. Look up the pipping techniques on  u-tube and in a couple of hours you will be up and running.

Tomorrow I'll get some decorating tips from the hobby shop and practice to get the right consistancy of the paper slip. It will take me longer than a few hours to be good at piping. I will try making canes too. Watch out Chris Campbell, here I come......lol

 

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I went another direction. When I made a tile that represented the state Capitol as an ice cream bowl (with a cherry on top), I found that slip just didn't give me enough volume. So I took soft clay, rolled to rounds, placed where I wanted the edge, then blended back into the cream by smushing the high side of the roll. Worked perfectly and looked delicious.

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try this:

 

Arnie's Fish Sauce Slip

43.6 Grolleg/China Clay/Kaolin

15.6 Silica
23.4 F-4/Minspar/soda spar
7.8 Pyrax/Pyrophyllite
9.5 Bentonite 

 

can be mixed super thick, like cream cheese thick.  have had students pipe it out with success.

 

​another option would be a 2nd firing with white Egyptian paste as the icing.

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Min, thanks. The idea has great merit.

 

Chris, I'll see if I can find Snow. To what cone did the Snow fire?

 

Drmerytle, I really like your idea. I will use it first. I will also thin it to a paste, add sodium silicate and try piping it.

 

Perkolator, thanks for the fish sauce recipe. It sounds like I have some trials to do.

 

Jed

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It's a commercial glaze by either Amaco or Duncan ... It puffs up and looks like snow. I think it was either Cone 05 or 06. It's not very fashionable, but it did the job.

I've used it for the top of christmas stockings to make into mobiles or just to hang on the tree.  It's matt and crusty.  There are at least three different makes/brands at the centre I go to, all slightly different.

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I've been out for quite some time. But, I wanted to post where my gingerbread church stands. It is drying slowly. I need to pipe the ridges and corners. In the next two weeks, I will finish the piping and corners. I need to make paper slip with magic water to repair the cracks before firing. Once Fired, I will add shingles.

 

Jed

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