Air Drying Hi Ration Shortening Buttercream
Decorating By mmoonlight Updated 28 Jul 2007 , 5:30pm by mmoonlight
I made some drop flowers and gave them 48 hours to dry and I still had to scrape them off the wax paper because the inside and bottoms were still wet. Is this an issue because I used the hi ration shortening or did I do something else wrong?
mmoonlight.. did you use royal icing or regular buttercream?
When I am making drop flowers like this, I usually make them with RI so they will dry like rock candy....hard.
I guess I really just substituted the hi ratio for what I used in regular (but the recipe told me to). It was regular buttercream, not RI. I had a lot of little drop flowers on the top of a cake and I didn't want them hard. I'm thinking about making up some BC roses to dry, but I don't want to if they're going to stay moist (and they're bigger so they'll take longer to dry even still). Maybe I'll cut the shortening like someone said, and only use half?
Using a crusting hi-ratio recipe would also help:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2375-Brite-White-Buttercream-Icing.html
The icing base isn't absolutely necessary to make a good frosting. 
HTH
Thanks for the recipe. Anyone know where I can find Magic Line Creme Bouquet?
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