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Cake Decorating Basics Reference and Activity Manual Unit Three: Fun with Fondant 125 Stippling with Royal Icing Stippling is adding an evenly textured layer over a smooth surface. Some ceilings in homes are stippled instead of being completely smooth. The same can be done with royal icing to stipple a fondant cake. After the cake is draped in fondant and smoothed, the area to be stippled is marked off and areas you do not want to be textured should be covered with parchment paper or painters' tape. Before you stipple your cake, practice on parchment paper and then on a piece of extra rolled fondant to get your technique figured out. A layer of royal icing is spread over the fondant and then a piece of sponge, plastic wrap, crumpled paper towel or a clean scouring pad is dabbed against and lifted off the fresh icing to give it an bumpy texture all over. If you are using this technique on a cake covered with fondant, you would need to roll out some thin fondant to practice stippling on right before you apply the royal icing to your cake.