Instructions: Resealable plastic sandwich bags or quart-sized heavy plastic bags can be used to write a birthday message on a cake. Fill the bag with thinned bottled lowfat chocolate fudge sauce or a scratch sauce.

To prepare bottled lowfat chocolate fudge sauce, warm in the microwave or over steamer. Thin with cranberry juice or apple cider until smooth and thin: it will thicken when cool. Let cool. Transfer to a squeeze bottle or a bag.

To use a plastic bag, fill it half full of chocolate fudge sauce or frosting and seal. Snip off the very tip of one corner to create a writing tip that will produce a simple line. Start with a small hole and enlarge if necessary. Inexpensive plastic decorating tips are available in supermarkets where cake decorations are sold and they can be fitted into the corner of a plastic bag. -Pillsbury May 1993

To center an inscription on a cake ("Happy Birthday" or "Welcome Home"), first write the message on paper and measure its length in inches.

(Counting letters wont work because some take more space than others.)

Divide the length in half to determine the center of the inscription and mark it on the paper; then mark the center of the cake top. Align the center of the inscription with the center of the cake, and mark or trace the position of the letters on the cake before piping on the icing. -from

NOTES : This isnt a recipe for the frosting so much as my notes on cake writing... not just carob either. ;-)

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