i am making a birthday cake and want to use whipped cream icing. i am looking for a recipe that will crust or at least allow me to smooth. also wat kind of icing should i use to decorate the cake. thanks

I just began using a new icing made with real homemade whipped cream. It is about as thick as the Wilton Buttercream but it's texture and taste is so much better in my opinion. It's creamy when you eat it and not so sugary and gritty on your tongue. This is the recipe as I make it:

Whipped Cream Buttercream

16 oz heavy whipping cream, chilled
1 cup butter (I use real butter), room temp but not soft
1 cup shortening
1 pound confectionary (powdered) sugar, sifted

Put mixer bowl and whip attachment (stand up mixer or stainless steel bowl and beaters) in freezer for about 10 minutes to chill. Remove from freezer, pour in cold whipping cream and whip until stiff peaks form. Remove whipped cream from mixer bowl and put it into the fridge to keep cold. Whip butter and shortening together until creamy. Add half of powdered sugar and half of whipped cream. Whip until just mixed, add rest of sugar and whipped cream. Whip continuously until creamy, about 10 minutes. The mixture will look like it's separating when you first add the whipped cream but keep whipping it and it will come together nicely). This buttercream will not be white, it has an ivory to light yellow tone. The cake will have to be refrigerated. You can decorate with it, borders, writing, etc. I haven't tried roses or anything other than basic decorations yet though. You have to work quick with it in a piping bag though because the heat from your hands will melt it.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for this....sounds yummy and I love the real cream flavor in my icings. Recently tried the cream cheese whipped cream icing using heavy cream with the cream cheese (from this site)....was yummy also, but I never got it to get stiff enough for piping.

Oooh, thanks for the new recipe, can't wait to try this

I have one that I found online, forget where....but it doesn't crust. You can get it smooth if you don't mess with it too much. If you keep messing with it, the frosting comes off and you have to start over. It's so good though!

1 tub of non dairy whipped topping
1 package of vanilla instant pudding
1 cup cold milk
1/4 cup confectioners sugar

Mix the pudding mix, milk and sugar together with a wisk and make sure it's all blended in. Then gently fold in the whipped topping (make sure it's not frozen) If you use french vanilla pudding your frosting will have a yellow tint and be a bit sweeter so make sure it's regular vanilla pudding mix. If you want a thicker frosting you can let the pudding set up for 5 minutes before you fold in the whipped topping, don't let it set all the way though.

Must be kept in the fridge.

thanks rvallee for the recipe. can it be used to decorate the cake or should i use buttercream?

There's a recipe for Whipped Cream BC in the recipe section here on CC. It's light and fluffy and you can use it for decorating. You can't Viva it, but you can smooth it using hot knife method.

I will surely try this recipe. I use to make my whipped cream with vanilla pudding. But it will make little yellowish.
Thanks rvallee.

Nitu

Rvalle can you pm me this recipe? I will appreciate it.

Thanks again rvallee for this great idea.
I did never think about adding violet food color. WOW! I am still wondering how it works, little bit yellow and little bit violet = white, hum!..........
I just want to do it now.

Thanks rvallee. That is really great help.

Nitu

You're welcome, but I CANNOT take credit for the violet idea. It wasn't my idea. I never would have thought of that on my own. I am going to research to see who posted that originally if I can find it. I am not trying to take credit for her idea or her original posting of it. Just want to make that clear so I don't offend anyone. But I did come up with the recipe for this icing on my own by experimenting. Feel free to pass it on to anyone who wants it though!

okay, I just found it. (I should have looked in the first place, it wasn't that hard to find )

here is the thread where I first saw this trick:

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-18524-violet.html%2A

Sorry if that doesn't link right. I'm not sure how to do it properly. Just cut and paste it into your address bar and it should take you right there.