I know there was a topic on this but when I did a search I couldn't find anything. I just bought the orange and strawbery icing fruits and need some ideas on how to use them.

I love, love, love icing fruit. I keep it on hand ALL the time. I take white cake batter and make strawberry cake, lemon cake, orange cake, etc., etc. Also how I make chocolate orange cake. In fact, I offer 30 flavors of cake, but mostly variations - with the help of flavorings, extracts and icing fruit - I really just need to start with white cake batter and chocolate cake batter.

Ok, I'm in the dark. What is "Icing Fruit" and where do you get it?

How much of this stuff do you add to the cake batter? Also, does anyone use it in frostings?

sugalips , I got my icing fruit from CK Products.

I add it mostly by eye and color. There are directions on the label. do NOT use them. Put in no more than half of what the directions say. Start with a fourth. I also mix in extracts/flavorings too.

What is icing fruit? I've never heard of it.

Icing Fruit-Strawberry
Concentrated fruit with real fruit pulp to add flavor and fruit to icing, confections, or cakes. Ingredients: Strawberries, sugar, dextrose, citric acid, artificial flavor, pectin, algin, sodium benzoate (preservative) and red #40.

I love the CK Icing fruits & I've had a lot of success with them - both in icing and in the cake itself.

I normally add about a tablespoon to a cake mix & about the same to 4 cups of icing. It's really easy to go overboard, so start small & keep tasting the icing.

I did a Pineapple Supreme cake mix & added the pineapple icing fruits & made a coconut pineapple buttercream that was AMAZING.

I've never seen any instructions, either.

Recommended ratio is 1 oz. icing fruit to 2 lbs. icing or batter (you can adjust to suit your personal taste)

http://www.thebakerskitchen.net/icing_fruit.aspx

HTH

For my strawberry cake I use 2 oz icing fruit to one recipe of my white cake.

What brand? Some have said it is good and others say it isn't. I suspect they are using different brands.