i need to make cream cheese icing for cup cakes and am not sure whether to use the one on the recipes as it has vegetable shortening, butter etc - I thought it was just cream cheese and icing sugar?
If i was to make this icing recipe how long can I keep it in advance. THe function is on sunday and was going to ice the cupcakes on Saturday.
Also does anyone have this converted into metric measurements?
HELP 
Oh bugger, I had a site saved for conversions, too....try this chuelchie: http://www.baking911.com/howto/measure_metric.htm
If you use one with butter, it should be refrigerated but if you use just shortening, it may crust but you can leave it out. Not much help, sorry!
also if you type in google it can transform units: for instance ...in in cm or ...lb in g and press enter
As for the cream cheese filling I make it with cream cheese, whipped cream, icing sugar and a bit of lemon juice (no butter or shortening). It works nicely but I usualy put everything in the fridge cause I like it hot in the appartment.
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