Hi everyone. I love the board! I'm very new to cake decorating. I've made cakes before and used store bought frosting because its what my hubby likes but i want to do more. I'm planning to make my sons christening cake in june and need some help. BTW i'm currently taking course 1, class 3 is next monday.
Is whipping cream heavy cream or cool whip? If not what is it?
If a frosting recipe calls for heavy cream or whipping cream, butter does it have to be refrigerated?
I am looking for a frosting recipe that is like the bakery frosting (ligh & fluffy and whip cream tasting) but that can be left out for a few hours in room temp. Does anyone have any ideas? Would uncrusted buttercream (seen the recipe no idea how it looks) be something like this?
Thank you all for your help, you guys are so talented.
Welcome to the world of CakeCentral and cake decorating!!!! (Be careful, this site is ADDICTING!!!LOL)
Have you looked through the recipes on this site? There are many good ones! Heavy Cream or Whipping cream is NOT like cool whip. You find it in a carton by the milk/dairy section of your grocery store. I wouldn't leave icing made with heavy cream and butter out for more than 2 hrs. Cake's with this icing cake be left in the fridge and taken out not long before serving.
Buttercream icing is really good (most bakery's use it for their decorated cakes) or if you don't want to make your own, Wilton's decorator icing in a can works great and tastes good too! It comes quite thick so you'd have to thin is down just a little bit in order to ice and decorate with it (1-2 tsp water added). You can find this icing at Michaels or most Wal Mart stores.
I hope you find what you're looking for and we want to see your cakes!!! Enjoy the site!!! Enjoy decorating too!!!
blessings,
elly
Elly you are beautiful. Your cakes are great and your poem was wonderful. I can relate definately. I've been on here for about 2 hrs already and the time just flew. I cant wait everyday for my babies to fall asleep so i can come on and see whats new and get new ideas. Thank you for all of your suggestions.
Debbie,
If you want an icing that has more of the texture of whipped cream (light and fluffy), try the recipe in the recipe section for Whipped Cream Butter Cream.
It doesn't have whipping cream in it, but it is very light and fluffy and it keeps well out of the refrigerator for several hours or longer.
Hope this helps you and welcome to Cake Central.
Cindy
Thank you guys. I looked at the recipe for whipped cream buttercream and it says it can be at room temp for 3 months. Thats great. Have you tried this recipe? If you have is it a good consistency to decorate with? I will definately try it beforehand to practice a bit. What is the flavor like?
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