what so-lite (or solite) is?? I was sent it by mistake by a cake prod. supplier I use - but apart from saying to mix it with milk & add to icing, not 100% what it is... Does it replace butter? can you use it like BC icing? or will it not go hard?
Thanks if you can shed any light on this for me...
Fi
PS: I did email the co. and ask what it was, but they never got back to me... li'l buggers!
hi
i am not 100% sure but i think it is the aussie version of vegetable shortening.
kylie
i found a site that has some. there are a few different ones.
here is a link
http://www.eoibakery.com/htm/creamshortening.html
kylie
let me know if you can open the link i just tried and i get page can not be displayed.
kylie
ps: try http://www.eoibakery.com.au/
it has all types of shortenings so you should be able to find the one you were sent and see what is can be used for.
ooooh!! i took the leap and used it... tastes like that fake cream stuff you get in donuts/cakes from commercial shops. It'll do for what I need - just needed an frosting/icing to go under a cake i'm decorating with RTR icing so it should would - at least it's edible! hehehe
Thanks for your help
Fi
ooooh!! i took the leap and used it... tastes like that fake cream stuff you get in donuts/cakes from commercial shops. It'll do for what I need - just needed an frosting/icing to go under a cake i'm decorating with RTR icing so it should would - at least it's edible! hehehe
Thanks for your help
Fi
Fi
Solite is just a vegetable shortening, you beat 200gms of it, with a couple of tablespoons of water, then add some vanilla, and then gradually beat in 500gms of sifted pure icing sugar. VOILA, you've got buttercream. It's what i imagine CRISCO to be like.
cheers
Nati
fi
now you have said that solite is yummy you have to tell me where you accidentally brought it from.
seems you can only buy bulk or wholesale
is it a white color or yellow???
i really want to make pure white buttercream!!!!
kylie
Hey kylie...
I got it from www.cakedeco.com.au ... it came in a small tub which u mixed with milk & 1kg of icing - I halved it first to test it out - didn't want to waste a whole kg of icing sugar! so u don't have to make a huge batch at a time if u don't want to...
It becomes PURE WHITE... none of this yellow-ish white icing... so now I know how to make white icing instead of buying whitener!
It is a bit sickly sweet tho... if you lick the bowl out just that toooo much! hehehe ... but then, so is the regular butter icing... kids will love it!
I stuck the cake in the fridge to see if it would harden... and it did... i guess there is enough icing sugar to make it go hard.
Fi
thanks fi
i buy from them all the time, only got some luster dust yesterday, wish i had of known about the solite earlier. lol
your a bowl licker too, hey. between me and my four kids its a wonder that i have any bc left when i make some. lol.
hate when i make a dark color though, anyone who walks in the door knows you have been into the icing by the color of your lips and tongue. lol
post the cake when your done and thanks for the info on the solite, i think i will head to cakedeco right now and order some.
kylie
hey fi
can't find it on their site, did it have another name!!
it wasn't called cocoa butter, was it!!!!!!
kylie
If this is what crisco tastes like... then it's evil!! too too yummy... hope the customer likes it as much as me !!
Well crisco DOES NOT taste yummy...at least not without the other ingredients added to it....
I was actually meaning when it was mixed with the other ingredients Marissa... I've had it in my cupboard for a while and was put off from the stinky smell of it, hence not sure whether to use it or not... but once mixed the stinky smell seemed to go.
I was actually meaning when it was mixed with the other ingredients Marissa... I've had it in my cupboard for a while and was put off from the stinky smell of it, hence not sure whether to use it or not... but once mixed the stinky smell seemed to go.
I wondered! Since someone else too was talking about it tasting sweet and all, I guess they must have meant when it was all mixed up together too. Didnt want you all in australia to think we had yummy vegetable shortening! lol!
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