Decorating With Cream Cheese Icing
Decorating By Sonjajackso Updated 31 Oct 2006 , 6:41am by butterflyjuju
I have a cake order and the person has requested cream cheese icing. Is the a recipe for a cream cheese icing that I can pipe with. Cream cheese icing seems to soft to pipe with. I need to pipe roses also so should I just use buttercream to pipe the roses? Also, what do I use to color cream cheese icing? Can I use the same colors that I color buttercream with (Wilton Colors).
Yea, your cream cheese icing should be ok to work with. Keep it cold and it should work. I have never used it to make roses though. Meaybe someone else has. I do use regular coloring, same for buttercream.
Good luck!
I have cut back on the amount of cream cheese in the icing a time or two. It all depends on your goal.
Let us know how you did!
when a customer wants me to make them a cake with creme cheese i will frost the cake in creme cheese but do the decorations in buttercream creme cheese will not hold up the flowers to well.
Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll do the roses in BC and frost with CC like heather2780 suggested.
Oy..... cream cheese frosting this summer was such a nightmare. I wish I had used BC for my decorations but sadly, on all those 112 degree days, even that would'nt have helped. They melted while being delivered. 
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see clouds and temperatures in the low 70's instead of mid-90's like last Sunday. 
I use cream cheese frosting alot when making cakes. I love the taste of it and alot of other people seem to, also (what's there not to like!). There is a crusted cream cheese frosting under the recipes section is pretty close to what I use. I use it to ice the cake and then for piping and other decorations, I will mix 1/2 cream cheese icing and some "regular" buttercream (the recipe that has crisco, powdered sugar and flavorings but no butter or margarine). It seems to stiffen it up enough without changing the taste too much.
HTH
I will mix 1/2 cream cheese icing and some "regular" buttercream (the recipe that has crisco, powdered sugar and flavorings but no butter or margarine). It seems to stiffen it up enough without changing the taste too much.
HTH
That's a great compromise! I will have to remember that....thanks
OK, I'm a little behind I admit...what do you do in terms of refrigeration? How long can CC frosting stay out?
I used Earlene's cream cheese and it was great for decorating including roses. She says you can leave it out of the fridge for a while. You might check out her website.
Can someone give me the link to get Earlene's cream cheese recipe?
Here it is 
http://www.earlenescakes.com/icings.htm
Earlene's recipe is
1 cup crisco
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
2 tsp flavoring
2 lbs powdered sugar
water as needed
Mine smoothed just like my buttercream and tasted awesome to boot.
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