Hi,
I am normally a fondant girl but I wanted to use a cream cheese frosting for my DHs birthday.
I am planning to use a devils chocolate cake (as I have loads in the freezer) and I am torn between 2 recipes on this site - crusting cream cheese or orange cream cheese.
I have a few questions!
Will this need to be kept in the fridge once the cake is decorated, and does it work ok with fondant accesories and royal icing piping? I just really need to know if it works ok in genearal decorating techniques. I plan to make a book cake .
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers
Hi! I haven't tried either of those cream cheese recipes, so can't help you there (not on my pc right now, so don't have access to the recipe I use), but any recipe with cream cheese in will need to be refrigerated.
Don't know about the other stuff either, as I've only used it under a chocolate wrap, but really just wanted to say hi!
Kelly
Yes cream cheese icing can be used just like bc and you can add any ri or fondant decorations on it. It must stay refrigerated though. First off the cream cheese icing tends to soften and secondly the icing is dairy. I really struggle icing a cake smooth with cc icing. I even use a crusting recipe and it doesn't crust as good as the bc does. Boy does it taste good though!!!
I used a crusting cream cheese recipe for my wedding cake (in my photos), and I had chocolate sea shells, and it held up fine. It also was so smooth that the reception hall owner asked me if it was fondant when I was setting up the cake........It was left out for about 10 hours from the time I set it up until we took home the few left over pieces of the bottom tier.........I did then refrigerate it, but no one got sick from it....and it was great for the next few days.
If I asked nicely and begged furiously would you consider PM'ing me your cream cheese recipe? My family loves the wilton class recipie (as do I) but I would like to start using something diffrent and yours sounds perfect.
edited to say:
Geez...what a beautiful wedding cake esp. for your first!!
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