No, seriously....

My frosting recipe is really yummy. One batch makes 10 cups. I eat so much during the mixing and decorating process that I often have to make 2 batches to decorate a plain 9 inch layer cake.

I've been making this recipe for 2 years (maybe 3??) and I'm not sick of it yet. I've tried brushing my teeth, chewing gum, eating pickles, eating candy, etc. Nothing helps. Oh, wise CC'ers, help a girl out!

If you are seriously eating that much then.....I suggest you go to the mall and look at your butt in one of those three-way mirrors! =)

BTW, I have No will power myself!

Take Alli right before you start on a cake. I think you will find that you will have no problems staying out of the icing the SECOND time you take Alli before working on a cake. I haven't taken it myself but I know how it works, and if you are serious about not eating that icing, that would be a surefire way to deter you.

You would think you'd get tired of it. I'm like you, I don't. When I've spent the day decorating a cake, I go to bed feeling like I'm covered in it and it's oozing out of my pores. I hate that feeling but still do it too. I think it's mindless for me.

it might not be a particuarly mentally healthy way to do it, but when i am eating really badly, i just think that that extra bite will make me disgustingly fat and cellulitey (or even more so). do it with every single bite, and it will work! the guilt gets to me!

it is about changing how you think, you need to make your self realise and KNOW that eating that extra frosting isnt worth the consequences, whether its is losing your health, or not fitting into *that* outfit.

at least try and balance it off with exercise and proper healthy eating.
xx

Try chewing gum while you are making the icing. The mintier, the better.

Sometimes I will have frozen grapes out and suck on them while I am making icing. It's sweet and cold, and takes my mind off of eating the icing.

Try brushing your teeth after tasting it...this brings an "end" to the eating.

I felt the same way as you when I first started making IMBC. I couldn't stop eating it!!

HTH

maybe if you go ahead and eat something before you start frosting, you will be full enough not to want as much--

BUT, i am totally with you--people say to me all the time, "you must be so sick of cake!"-- and honestly after making cake or frosting almost every day for the past 3 years-- i am still not! wish i was!--

having a big old bag of baby carrots out works for me-- (sometimes!) --

What is Alli,does it make you loose weight.I think I might love it.

Thanks all. One would think that being very overweight I'd be better prepared mentally and not nibble, but I do. I'm overweight and I like my sweets. Short of not decorating, which isn't an option, I need other ideas.

OMG- some of these responses had me rolling on the floor!

Seriously, tho, think of all that sugar you're eating and how that sugar is going to affect your blood sugar and that leads to all sorts of serious problems. If you're eating enough icing that you have to make 2 batches, you're clogging your arteries and elevating your blood sugar to potentially dangerous levels.

Icing is fine in moderation, but - whoa - sounds like you're not moderatin' very well!

PS - Can I have your icing recipe???

Wow. I like frosting, but never have the urge to eat mine while decorating. Maybe you could post your recipe?!?!?! Sounds too good not to try!

OK this is hilarious! I have had a bowl of left over blood orange SMBC in my fridge for a week just calling to me! I finally broke down today and had to have some. It's just so yummy it's like eating ice cream! I'm usually pretty good about not eating it as I'm making the cake, it's the left over icing I have issues with. I hope you figure out what will work, maybe it will help me with the left overs!

A friend of mine uses a surgical mask to keep her fingers and other things out of her mouth. May help you to think about it if you have to move the mask. Just a thought.

Wow!! If the icing is that good PLEASE PM the recipe to me if you have a chance!! I have never heard of it or had it!! It sounds delicious!! I am serious and would really appreciate it!!

Meanwhile, be careful, I ate so much icing one day I did get sick. That sure helped me to eat sweets in moderation!!

Thanks and good luck, I know it is hard!!

I use gloves to work and that helps.. But as far as stop liking it...uhmm...NO!
I been working in this business for so long, you think I would get tired of it, but I still crave a piece of cake..YUMMY.. I just had some amaretto!
Edna

Please what is ALLI

myholidayboyz, I was not kidding about taking Alli.

Go buy some. Today. You need some kind of intervention if you are seriously eating 10 cups of butter and shortening. You should not even be putting that much icing in your body in a YEAR.

Please also have your cholesterol checked.

Can you give us the reciepe , i made the wilton and ohhhh way to sweet.

Ladies- as she wrote- she posted the recipe for her YUMMY BUTTER CREAM it's in the recipe section of Cake Central.

holiday- I'm right there with you! Since you like the one you posted -if I were you -I wouldn't check out any other BC recipes in the recipe forum, believe me you will be addicted 1000x worse than you are! HeHe

I personally have a jones for serious_cakes BC, also SMBC and especially FMBC.


The idea for the surgical mask may help- I'll have to try that.

I would have to agree totally with cakepro...this can be a deadly addiction...you should get a physical to be on the safe side. No cake is worth dying for. I pray that you will find a way to overcome this.[/quote]

Eeeew... I can't even eat a spoonful of frosting (unless it's SMBC and then only a tea sized spoon). I couldn't imagine eating a bowl of it. You are going to give yourself a heart attack. Have you tried hypnosis? Something to put a bad association with icing? Maybe eat enough to make you hurl? (grabbing at straws here)

On a side note, blood orange SMBC is one of my all time favs (still can't eat a spoonful though). Just make a blood orange curd and add some to your favorite SMBC recipe.

I read the title of this post and laughed out loud!!!

I thought I was the only one who is frosting addict!!

I go thru a pack of gum & some Certs when baking/decorating.

Alli! LMAO!!

Have you had any blood work or sugar levels done, never hurts to check, your blood sugar could be low

**double post, sorry**