Can You Use A Crisco Butter Cream Fondant And Decorate With
Decorating By sunflowerfreak Updated 29 Jul 2006 , 8:59pm by BlakesCakes
Can you use a Crisco Buttercream fondant and decorate with Royal icing? I heard that you can't mix the 2 because the royal messes up the buttercream. Has anyone had success using both at the same time? I am making cookies for the first time today and need to know. Thanks.
Sorry, but I don't understand what "Crisco Buttercream fondant" is???
Fondant and buttercream are very different things-- both can have Crisco in them-- but in very different proportions. Rolled buttercream made with buttercream would probably be mid-way between the above two. I would think that royal decorations on that would just stay a bit softer, but still crust over if they were thick enough.
Royal on fondant--even MMF made with Crisco--should be fine because there is really minimal Crisco in it. Royal on buttercream, either crisco or butter based, can be an issue because of the fat breaking down the royal. The first thing that happens is that thin royal decorations begin to get grease spots on them. Heavier royal decorations hold up longer, but they all get soft eventually. The really hard part is those decorations that are on vertical surfaces--sides of cakes--because the piped royal spike that you use to hold them on breaks down and the decorations pop off of the cake.
Rae
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