I am doing a carrot cake with cream cheese icing. And they want it decorated. How hard is this going to be with cream cheese icing??? I had thought of doing a FBCT of a tractor. Will this hold?

I have never decorated (as far as flowers etc) with cream cheese icing, but I think there is a crusting cream cheese icing recipe in the recipes that they say is good to decorate with. Hope this helps., at least it will bump you back up, so you may get help from someone that knows for sure.

I've done it many times just make sure you keep your frosting cold and when I colored mine I used powdered color if your making your own frosting I would add a little more powdered sugar for stiffness.

Molly2

Why don't you ice it and do the borders in cream cheese, but decorate w/ butercream? That's what I do... The cream cheese is less stable, and a little more "gooey" to decorate with. Haven't tried the crusting cream cheese... ?

HI alicia,

I used this recipe on a cake a while back and it worked great for decorating as well... It's consistant like BC but cream cheese.... It is delicious as well! I used it on a carrot cake...

http://cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2047-Crusting-Cream-Cheese-Icing.html

cream cheese icing gets soft, as said before you will have to keep it chilled also when i was surfing the net the other day i found a cream cheese icing w/meringue powder--i didn't keep it i just thought a would try to add some to my recipe the next time--HTH

Helendelk

I used one kinda like this the only problem I had with it is the taste I could taste the shortening in it is the taste good?

Molly2

I made a carrot cake for some friends for Memorial Day.

I used a BC icing as a base and added cream cheese it was wonderful, the icing was really smooth and a little fluffy.

I made the icing that I was going to ice the entire cake with, with less powdered sugar, so it would stay fluffy.

Added more to do the borders and flowers it worked out well, I would surely do it again.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the tip I'm going to try this. when I make cake with cream cheese frosting I keep the cake in the refridgerater until time for delivery and then it will sit out and I've never had any problem with it.

Molly