Hi all - am doing a carrot cake for a birthday tomorrow and dont want to use cream cheese icing as the aussie weather is all over the place at the moment. Has anyone used a lemon flavoured buttercream with carrot cake before? I just saw a recipe that uses lemon curd. Still want it to be a bit tangy, but stable in the heat is most important! Any help or suggestions would be great.

Thanks

Sorry to say, I haven't so can't help, but wanted to say, across the ditch, I hear ya on the weather. You could swim in the air here. Good luck with this.

oooo I would like to know too cose i am looking for a different icing to go on them after I used cream cheese icing on a carrot cake last week.....never again LOL

Ok well looks like I will just have to try it and see! Will let you know how it tastes. Back from work at 11pm - looks like an all nighter for me!

If it helps i did find a recipe that uses a plain lemon icing with their carrot cake so that's a good sign!

Oh and another one that says it gives it some 'zing'

Well just heard back from my friend and she said there were lots of comments about how good the cake was. I used a little fresh lemon juice, zest and a tiny bit of lemon essence to get the flavour right. My goodness did I have problems with the fondant though! It just sweated and sweated ALL night. I ended up brushing it with corn flour to soak some of it up, which then changed the surface of the fondant and messed it up a bit. Here's a pic, definitely not my best work. Air conditioner on the list of things to save up for.

for future note, orange is a good flavour too!
xx

Oh its adorable!!!!

Have you ever tried to stabilize cream cheese icing by adding extra powdered sugar and maybe a bit of meringue powder? Seems like it would help out in your weather...maybe not quite as "cream cheesy" but still the flavor would be there and it would be more stable...?

Thanks for the tips and comments. Now where were you "orange" ladies when I needed you the other day? I just wasn't even going to attempt any sort of cream cheesiness after so many bad stories on cc. I really should have taken a pic of how WET my cakes were before I attempted to 'fix'! They looked like swimming pools on top! Am on the east coast Blue just a bit north of Newcastle, right on the coast. Didn't see the temp on Sat, but it must have been pushing 40!

well done with the cake, it looks great, youd never know youd had a nightmare with it! Jealous of your hot weather, Its FREEZING here in the uk at the moment!

Yeh it's gonna be 43C today lol

Glad to hear the lemon worked. I might still try it in future along with the orange suggested cose i do like lemon icings

Going by the pic i think it looks great! and the fondant doesn't look like it had anything wrong with it at all Love the elephant too

i have a recipe for carrot cake.. using pineapple filling and orange in the icing.. delicious. got it from southern living.. i think..have made it several times for christmas.. everyone loved it..

I love lemon icing on carrot cake. It's how my grandma always made it.

Yeah I found a few threads about the pineapple filling with carrot cake, but I think I will have to try that at home first before I made it for someone else. Icer101 is there be any chance you would share that recipe for the filling with me? My eyes were really opened to fillings once I got on cc. I haven't experienced much variety in cakes in oz. Another thing I love that we are from different countries!

arghhhh the beach!! Im so jealous!!! Snow melted today and left dirty frezing cold slush everywhere, which my boys still attempted to make snow angels in on the way to school

Funny you mentioned the cornstarch made your fondant weird. I've never used corn starch on fondant but I just saw very recently a link to some videos by Norm Davis and he says never to use cornstarch because it causes a chemical reaction with any fondant - good to know. I've seen other posts that swear by cornstarch so I was almost about to try it myself