Hello 
This may be a stupid question, but I'm pretty new to this I just bought a bunch of baking cookbooks (The Cake Book, WBH, Magnolia) with tons of beautiful recipes. My question is, if you ice the cake with a flavored icing from one of these recipes (for example cream cheese icing, or caramel icing etc) do you decorate with the same icing or with decorator's buttercream? I guess I ask because so far I have only iced whole cakes with the standard Wilton buttercream icing and am looking to branch out. Will the tastes fight if you put buttercream decorations on a cake that has been iced/filled with a different flavor/texture icing? Any insight or tips would be appreciated!
Hi! That's not a stupid question! 
I have used different combinations of frostings/icings on a cake. I try to make sure that the flavors complement each other. Buttercream tends to work favorably with just about any other flavors you may be using. For example, you could do buttercream borders/decorations on a cream cheese frosted cake. You could do buttercream ~ or a stiff whipped cream ~ decoration on a german chocolate frosted cake (that's the icing with the coconut in it). Go ahead & experiment!
As you work with your recipes, you'll soon get a feel for what will work with your cake/filling/frosting combo.
Happy baking!!!
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