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Choosing the right icing recipes for your cakes is a matter of taste and function.
Some frosting recipes work better for covering the outside of the cake than for decoration. Another consideration is the temperature. Some won't hold up under warm weather conditions. Also,consider the audience when making your selection. Some adults consider buttercream too sweet, yet kids most kids love it. Decorations, like roses,require a firm consistency. Enter the icing recipe contest. Click here to share your favorite frostings with visitors to this page!. Click here to see more recipes from other visitors this page.
When covering the outside of the cake,your best bet is to use icing recipes that spread smoothly. If the icing is too thick,you will create crumbs and sometimes lift pieces of the cake right up.Most icings can be thickened for piping by adding confectioners sugar and thinned for spreading by adding milk. When frosting the cake,glide a metal spatula back and forth on the cake to avoid lifting crumbs into the frosting.It can take a bit of practice to achieve a smooth finish. The flawless cakes you see are often covered in royal icing. While perfect looking, you may not want to bite into hard icing. You can come pretty close to perfect with buttercream icing by using a baker's trick:
Coloring Icing Serious decorators choose paste or powder food coloring. Liquid food color won't give you the intensity or the versatility of the other two. It only takes a little dab of paste food coloring to go a long way, so start with a dab. You can always darken the color by adding more, but if you add too much, you will need to add more icing to dilute the color. Your cake will look best if you stick to the same intensity for each color you choose. If you start with pastel shades, continue throughout for your cake. If using deeper colors, maintain the brightness for all your decorations. Powdered icing color can also be used to paint the outside of a cake that is covered in fondant. Once applied, however, you cannot remove it. You may prefer to paint a fondant applique and apply it to the cake, so to avoid making a mistake you cannot fix. This list of Icing Recipes and tips will continue to grow. Subscribe to our e-zine to keep up-to-date.
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