Questions tagged [frosting]
A sugary topping for desserts such as cakes and donuts. Frosting is generally thicker and fluffier than icing. Questions may be about preparing, storing, or using frosting, or about techniques for applying icing to a target baked good.
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My peanut butter frosting is too dense and won't whip. How do I fix this?
Recipe for context:
3 cups confectioner's sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
As instructed, I mixed the wet ingredients with a hand mixer until fluffy. I ...
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Swiss buttercream being runny and unusable for cake decoration
I followed a recipe to make swiss buttercream:
5 egg whites
200 gr sugar
225 gr butter
(Bain-marie to dissolve sugar)
Beating egg whites until stiff peaks form and gradually adding the softened butter ...
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How can I thicken this icing/glaze?
I made the following icing/glaze with the following recipe:
2 pints frozen blueberries
large bunch of fresh basil
1/2 cup bourbon
6 cups of confectionary sugar
Blend berries, basil, and bourbon ...
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How can i improve the strength/pigmentation of colours in my Swiss Meringue Buttercream Icing
I use Swiss Meringue Buttercream (SMBC) to cover my cakes. Whenever i colour them the colours always come out very pastel/light. I can sometimes get slightly more intense colour by adding black or ...
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What technique or tools should I use to make frosting in this particular shape?
I want to make dessert like in the screenshot. How can I make the white part to look the same in real life as in the screenshot (it could be not rounded corners, if it will be impossible)? The ...
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Can you ever make your frosting (or icing) without sugar crunch?
Can you ever make your frosting (or icing) without sugar crunch? I use powdered sugar, as I'm supposed to (mixed it with milk and lingonberry juice), but I still feel those crunchy sugar crystals ...
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Frosting that tastes less like cream cheese
I want to make a rainbow birthday cake. The recipie I'm following uses a cream cheese based frosting:
600 g cream cheese
250 g soft butter
120 g powdered sugar
(The recipie is here, it is in German ...
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Baking muffins filled with cream cheese frosting instead of cream cheese filling
I wanted to make 'stuffed' carrot cake muffins. I checked a few recipes, like (carrot cake muffins with cream cheese filling), (stuffed carrot cake muffins) or (carrot cheesecake muffins), just to ...
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At Home Cake Decorator [duplicate]
So I have been researching how to become a home bakery. The laws are a little more restrictive than if I were to have a commercial kitchen. So I live in Arizona and one of the cottage rules is I can ...
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Why is my cream cheese frosting so soft?
I am using (almost) the CupcakeJemma recipe for cream cheese frosting:
150g soft unsalted butter
240g cream cheese
320g icing sugar (confectioner’s/powdered sugar)
The listed recipe says to use 960g ...
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Cocoa butter crystals in chocolate frosting
We have been making a chocolate frosting recipe for 15+ years. At it's best it is creamy, smooth, fudgy, and stays a beautiful, spreadable consistency at room temperature. We make it in a batch that ...
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What's the kind of cake that have liquid frosting that drips when you open the package?
I've seem videos of such cakes where the frosting is in molten/semi-liquid form sitting on top of the cake, and held up by packaging (usually a piece of hard plastic wrap around the cake). Upon ...
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Can I make a buttercream using cacao butter?
My nephew have lactose allergy and I want to bake his birthday cake , were we live we don't have a lactose intolerance products but I found a cacao butter can I used to make buttercream frosting??
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Is there a frosting that's sweet like American Buttercream but textured like Italian Meringue Buttercream?
I know a lot of people find storebought frosting like Betty Crocker's to be vile anathema... but I love its taste. For me, the sweeter the better! Which is why I was disappointed when I made a batch ...
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Coffee Grounds and Gritty Butter Cream Icing
Is there any way to dissolve coffee grinds once added to a butter cream frosting?
I used instant coffee crystals in the past and they have always dissolved when simply added to the butter cream ...
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Help on understanding frosting
A couple of disclaimers:
I know there are a number of websites already devoted to this; I needed to ask for clarification because the info out there does not help me understand how they taste
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What is a stable frosting for a cake that will be in warm temperatures at an outside party?
I'm hosting a party for my son who's turning three at a park. We'll be under cover but not air conditioned - and we're in the middle of a hot Texas summer. The party is early in the day so it's likely ...
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When Swiss Meringue Buttercream is made with dried egg whites, must the meringue be heated before adding the butter?
I use dried pasteurized egg white powder for Swiss Meringue Buttercream because it's less expensive than fresh eggs and avoids the problem of how to use the egg yolks.
Would there be a difference in ...
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Preparing as much as possible of a cake in advance
It's my girlfriend's birthday this WE and I plan on secretly preparing a cake she likes. However, we'll be in the countryside with friends this WE, and I'll have very limited time to prepare on site ...
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What’s the minimum sugar to egg white ratio in Swiss buttercream?
A Swiss meringue buttercream is a buttercream based on a sugar and egg white mix that is first heated and then whipped. The average recipes I could find use roughly one part egg white to two parts of ...
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Reducing butter levels in Swiss or Italian Buttercream
I've looked all over for recipes for Italian or Swiss buttercream. All of them use tons of butter, from 2 sticks to 5 sticks. I'm trying to find a recipe that makes a reasonable amount (enough to ...
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What kind of frosting has similar texture to the major grocery brands?
I have a frosting conundrum. I like the texture of the major brands of frosting one might buy in a grocery store, like Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker or similar.
Specifically, I like that the frosting ...
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How can I pipe multicolored flowers?
I've seen beautiful multi-color piping with buttercream frosting where the outer part of the flower is a different shade than the inner part. Here's an example:
How can this be achieved? Is there a ...
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Did I turn my frosting into mayonnaise?
A few weeks ago I made a European-ish buttercream with roughly these ingredients:
4 large whole eggs plus two yolks;
~1.5 cups of white sugar;
~1T vanilla bean paste (I scraped out the rest of my jar)...
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Multi-nozzle piping rig?
I need to frost a ton of cupcakes (hundreds) for an event in a few months and I'm looking for something to help me do this. Has anyone ever seen a manual multi-nozzle (like 3 or 4-nozzle) piping gun, ...
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Piping whipped cream icing vs buttercream
I'm looking to try piping whipped cream icing, instead of buttercream -- what are the major handling differences the feel to it, different tips to use, any tricks or pitfalls I should be aware of? I'...
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Can you cover an angel food cake with fondant?
can anyone tell me if I can cover an angel food cake with fondant or is it too heavy for this sort of cake?
What is the best for this kind of cake...
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How to thicken buttercream without adding more sugar
I made some buttercream frosting for brownies using this recipe. Because The frosting is going on brownies, it needs to be thicker than what it would be on something like a cupcake. We typically ...
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Is there a frosting similar to whipped cream but without cream?
Can I use butter or margarine for frosting instead of whipping cream in cakes?
I tried frosting cake with butter and icing sugar but I did not like the outcome.
Is there something else that'd come ...
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Creating a specific cream for a cake?
My grandma used to make a waffle cake with chocolate cream filling, Romanian/Hungarian/Russian style.
My mom is trying to recreate it, without success. But she doesn't exactly know how to make the ...
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Coffee whipped cream filling
I want to make a coffee cream filling for a mocha roll cake. If I dissolve instant coffee into heavy cream will it cause cream to not whip up properly?
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How can you change flavors in store-bought frosting?
I'm in a time crunch and I bought pre-made frosting for some cupcakes I'm bringing to a potluck (I know, shame on me. The cupcakes are homemade at least.). Because I was rushing, I accidentally bought ...
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Pre-frosting cake with jelly
I am making a chocolate cake for my son's birthday. Used a boxed cake mix (with a few substitutions) for the cake itself. Going to use chocolate frosting. Had the idea to put a light coat of ...
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how long does swiss meringue last?
I've just discovered swiss meringue as a dairy-free option for frosting cakes and am not sure much about it, including how long it lasts, whether to store it in the fridge or room temperature, how far ...
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How to change this frosting recipe to get a thicker result?
Making chocolate cake and frosting per recipe below from Hershey's recipe. The frosting we made is a bit too liquidy to put on the cake, more like icing. is there a way (or even hack) to make it ...
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how long does a cake with avocado frosting last in the fridge? [duplicate]
I am making a cake that I will frost with avocado frosting. For how many days can I keep cakes/cupcakes frosted with avocado frosting in the fridge?
I use this avocado frosting recipe from Alton ...
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Shortening to Swiss Buttercream [closed]
Can shortening (Sweetex or something similar) be added to a swiss buttercream? If so, at what ratio?
Thanks!
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Freezing Buttercream Flowers for later use?
I would like to make some buttercream cake decorations in advance and freeze them for later use (I am very slow at creating these designs) I know I can freeze them but I don't know what people put ...
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Making cake balls with a not-so-sweet frosting
I baked a cake which is sweet and moist. I would like to make cake balls with it, but I wonder what should I use as frosting to not make it sweeter! Is it possible to ignore any kind of frosting and ...
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Frosting kept melting when trying to frost cake
I made a chocolate malt cake for the first time the other day. I let the cake sit overnight to cool. I made the frosting while the cake was baking and put it in the fridge for the next day. The ...
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Rescuing peanut butter frosting
I was trying to get a smooth, frothy peanut butter frosting. I used a cup of creamy peanut butter, half a cup of butter, and 2 cups of powdered sugar. I liked the consistency of the mixture. But I ...
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How to convert a chocolate fudge frosting recipe to white chocolate?
I love the Betty Crocker recipe for fudge frosting! My problem? I really need a white chocolate instead of a cocoa frosting and have no idea how to substitute white chocolate for the 2tbsp cocoa the ...
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How to make frosting very white, fluffy, and shiny?
Given a typical recipe for frosting (preferably cream cheese), what can be done to make it fluffy and shiny -- even in a chilled state?
I've noticed that my cream cheese frosting tends to do this if ...
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Filling vs Frosting
What's the difference between filling and frosting? Does filling mean filling inside layers of a cake and frosting is covering the outside of the cake?
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Can sunflower or coconut oil be substituted for vegetable shortening in cake icing?
I was reading this recipe for cake icing and was wondering what would happen if I substituted sunflower oil or coconut oil (which is thicker and may better model the texture of the shortening) for ...
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Can you make a French Buttercream in a food processor? (Experiment Results)
Unless I get a credible and resounding NO! very soon, I'm going to give it a shot. I've recently started using my food processor for more and more whipped egg (not whipped egg white) applications, and ...
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what is the correct consistency for cream cheese frosting
I'm having an issue making decent cream cheese frosting.
I have a recipe that says to use:
1 pound (450g) cream cheese, at room temperature
4 oz (110g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
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Can I substitute chocolate chips for cocoa powder in my frosting?
I just ran out of cocoa while making a cookie sheet cake. Had enough for the cake, but not for the frosting. Can I substitute chocolate chips?
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How can I attach printed rice paper decorations to cakes / cookies?
I bought some printed rice paper decorations (flat circles of rice paper printed with edible ink) for my son's birthday party. I'm not sure what the best way is to attach them to cakes / cookies and I ...
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Adjusting whipped cream to hold its shape longer?
How can I adjust a whipped cream recipe so that it holds together longer? I envision a cross between whipped cream and a light airy frosting. The whipped cream will also have different flavorings ...
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