Cleaning Ready To Roll Icing

[Chasingcars]

Accidentally added this to an earlier post but realised it should be posted as a new question, apologies for duplication-

- when using ready to roll icing, recipe says to use icing sugar to stop it sticking to work surface but I find any residue is hard to get off finished cake...any ideas how to remove residue icing sugar without snagging icing or leaving fingerprints? Thankyou

[Psybbo]

Put the sugary side next to the cake?

[treetops1]

Try a damp pastry brush. Good answer Psybbo if you havent put sugar on both sides.( Ha Ha.)

[Psybbo]

Thought of that too late :-)

[murraymints]

lint roller ?

[EcclesCake]

I've never used icing sugar, I tend to roll onto baking parchment or cling film. Once the icing is on the cake I use the off cuts shaped into a ball and wrapped in cling to smooth the icing and remove the lumps and bumps.

[EcclesCake]

Sorry, I didn't really answer your question.

A gentle touch with a pastry brush, a silicone one will be more gentle than a bristle one, will remove the excess. Then a ball of off cuts wrapped in cling will smooth out any nicks.

[Chasingcars]

Thankyou everyone, yes a damp pastry brush worked well and left a nice glossy look rather than the dusty look i had before! Unfortunately both sides had icing sugar on where i had rolled it and turned over so i couldnt just hide the affected side.
Ecclescakes- thanks for your tip will try that in a bit re off cuts.

[follyfancier]

I always use cornflour not icing sugar it doesn,t get sticky and is much easier to smooth out and brush off

[smoneybags]

I used to use cornflour too, but last year went back to using royal icing which is really much nicer. I'll be using royal again this year too.