Cutting Icing with Silhouette

I have seen these icing sheets every where.

I googled how I could cut them with my Silhouette.  I got some good information but nothing on how to do it EXACTLY.  My girls birthday was coming up so I thought I would try them out.  Of course, I did it the day before just in case it didn't work and I had to go to plan 2.  This is what I did and it worked beautifully.

Prep for the Silhouette:

• I bought a sheet for the Cricut cake and cut it to fit in my Silhouette
• I also got a blade that I will now use just for icing

Cutting the Icing:
The trick is to only take the icing out right before you need to cut them.  If it is out too long, it will get brittle.

• I created my design on my silhouette machine
• I took the icing out of the bag and put it on the cricut sheet, I kept the clear backing on.
• Tape the icing to the sheet.  Tape both sides - you will waste a little icing but it is worth not having it slip since the cricut cake sheets aren't adhesive.
• Cut the icing using thickness of 20 and speed of 2.  This may be different for different brands but it worked great.
• Remove all the negative space and then I rolled off the design.

I had to do each letter separately so I wasn't that great at spacing.  The letters were a little difficult to get off the clear coating.  I couldn't imagine doing a more delicate design but I see it done on the Internet everywhere.

The icing doesn't really have a flavor - just a little chewy.

I liked how it looked. However, I frosted it with butter cream before and I would prefer to use fondant as I think it looks smoother.