Help! Forgot To Sift The Sugar! Can I Salvage It?
Decorating By ceshell Updated 26 Jul 2006 , 8:04pm by Katskakes
Hi all,
I just finished a batch of fudge frosting. First you melt to simmer: cream, butter and sugar in a saucepan. Remove from heat and whisk in chocolate. Pour into bowl and sift in powdered sugar. Whisk till smooth.
I missed the word "sift" and just dumped in powdered sugar like a fool. I should know better! Well I did know better when I noticed all the little chunks of p. sugar not going away. Augh!
Can anything be done to save this frosting or is this just an $$ lesson learned (I used Valrohna chocolate and Plugra butter!). I don't want to play with re-melting, cooking, or beating this unless someone says that something will work. It's not a terribly complicated recipe but the ingredients weren't cheap.
Thanks!
I don't know! If it were me, I'd probably keep whipping and try to pick them out with something. Too many? Maybe frost the cake and pick them off the frosted cake and go over it again with the spatula to smooth ... or cover them up with flowers!
Oh, I've done that so many times (LOL). I keep trying to mix until I can get it mixed in the best I can. Depending on the batter, I run it through a strainer to get the big chunks out.
Tina
Sometimes those chunks can be smashed up against the side of the bowl and taken care of. Anyway, this is what my mom does.
Chalk it up to a lesson learned. I would attempt to mix it some more and maybe add a little more cream. What do you have to lose? Thanks! There are too many to pick out - basically 2.5c of powdered sugar all gone into a zillion lumps. Augh! But thanks for the suggestions and sympathy 
. I did try straining them out (twice), it certainly made a dent in the consistency.
The good news is I am doing a sea theme cake and was going to cover the frosting w/crushed cookies (sand) anyway. I just can't get a bead on how it's going to taste; right now when I taste it you still get the taste of those tiny little pockets of sugar, and this is normally a to-die-for frosting. I'll wait to see what happens when it cools.
The funny thing is as I was dumping the sugar in I thought "That's strange, I wonder why I never had to sift the sugar?" LOL! I think it's because I just made my first batch of MMF yesterday and you don't have to sift the sugar in that. So I was on autopilot. Cooking and autopilot don't mix!
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