Help! Cream Cheese Frosting Is Dripping Off Carrot Cake!
Decorating By margery Updated 16 Jun 2007 , 7:35pm by FromScratch
Yah, its either too thin or your cake is too hot. Try refrigerating you cake first and letting the frosting on their harden up a bit. Then add more conf sugar to your recipe and it should be fine after. You could also add more cream cheese also to make it creamier.
Not to sound contradictory here, however...
I did a wedding carrot cake several years ago, with cream cheese filling and icing. It was humid out, pouring rain in fact, and the icing was VERY droopy. I thought adding pwd. sugar would help stiffen it, but it did the exact opposite! It got worse!
Now that I've taken baking courses, I know why. Sugar is a tenderizer. It takes in moisture from the air a lot, so that's why it makes icings droop if adding too much.
Answer is to add more cream cheese to stiffen the icing back up, but it's possible you might have to start the icing from scratch again.
HTH,
~ Scott
You can also try putting the cake and the frostin in the freeer. I wasn in a pinch one time where a customer wanted me to "help" her do her son's brithday cake. She brought in a huge batch of creamcheese frosting and it was dripping all over the place. Once I added a bunch of sugar and put in all in the freezer it was a lot more workable. I made sure she refigerated it when she got home until the party. She said it turned great. Hope this helps!
I second adding more cream cheese. You could add powdered sugar all day and still have soupy icing.. been there done that. Does your recipe have a lot of heavy cream in it? If it does it helps TONS to beat the cream to stiff peaks before you add it in. Then mix up all the other ingredients and fold them together at the end. Cream cheese icing is not a very stiff icing to begin with, but when you add a lot of cream to it.. it doesn't whip up like you'd want it to.. it just gets soupy. I have made the Whipped Cream Frosting on this site and it is marvelous.. not great for decorating.. but it tastes heavenly. There's alos a decorator's cream cheese frosting on this site too.. I haven't had a chance to use it, but it has great reviews. Good luck.. at this point I'd start over.. it's hard to save a cream cheese frosting that has gone wet.
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