Is there something I can add to frosting to make it better for piping? I usually use a butter cream cheese recipe made with cream cheese,butter,powdered sugar, vanilla extract and crisco. It is not consistent sometimes to soft or to hard when piping.
So I'm looking for a new recipe or additive to make a better piping frosting.
I'm about to do some grass piping for the first time and don't want droopy grass.

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I've never used piping gel, so I can just add it to my cream cheese icing recipe? What effect will it have for icing a cake, will it help get the icing smooth and flat? Or should I just use it for piping?

FYI I don't use fondant to cover my cakes I just use icing and try to get it as smooth as possible, then use fondant for decorations as well as some piping.

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Yes, just add it to your icing recipe whenever you need to thin it down for piping. I've never heard of anyone adding piping gel to icing for frosting a cake... I wouldn't think that you'd want your icing thinned down too much for thatyou'd want it a creamy, medium consistency, not so thin and soupy that it slides down.