How Do You Stop Yourself From Eating The Icing?

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dalis4joe Posted 14 May 2010 , 4:47pm
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yeah my icing... iced cakes... I am all CAAAKED OUT! I don't wanna eat anything sweet lol and I always get asked... how do you NOT gain weight with all those cakes? I say it's like working with anything... I see it as working materials/ingredients.... u will get there too icon_smile.gif

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indydebi Posted 14 May 2010 , 4:53pm
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I say it's like working with anything... I see it as working materials/ingredients.... u will get there too icon_smile.gif


This reminds me of what my husband tells me he told every bank teller he ever trained: "It's a product of our business. When it starts looking like money to you, then it's time to find another job!"

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chassidyg Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:04pm
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I couldn't stand bc..never had the urge to try it, taste it, anything. I made hubby and the kids taste it with plastic spoons that went into the trash....UNTIL I started making Debi's bc..........I tried it on a cc for my son's birthday, and it wasnt like regular old bc to me. It was very yummy! But. I only take a small spoon to taste it, since I never really measure vanilla very well. I throw some in, and see if it's vanilly enough.

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kristieanna Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:11pm
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I taste a little out of every batch I make, just to be sure it is perfect. This doesn't mean I eat spoonfuls out of the bowl, LOL. And I never lick my fingers! Luckily, I don't have a huge sweet tooth, so I am not tempted to keep licking anything while I am baking.

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amysue99 Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:18pm
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I make little "cake sandwiches" with the cake scraps and the icing left over from my crumb coat. The kids get a taste and I can have a little sample if I ever get a craving.

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Kibosh Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:27pm
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I see I'm not the only newbie whose buttons seems a lot harder to close now icon_smile.gif (a few pairs don't even close at all anymore icon_cry.gif )

I cannot wait for the day when I turn up my nose to icing/frosting.

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dalis4joe Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:29pm
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I say it's like working with anything... I see it as working materials/ingredients.... u will get there too icon_smile.gif

This reminds me of what my husband tells me he told every bank teller he ever trained: "It's a product of our business. When it starts looking like money to you, then it's time to find another job!"




Agreed!

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Franluvsfrosting Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:41pm
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Duct tape? icon_biggrin.gif

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Marianna46 Posted 14 May 2010 , 5:49pm
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I had to make a cake once when I had a cold, so I used a surgical mask. It was only when there was a physical block between my mouth and my finger that I realized how often I was tasting everyting - batter, icing, you-name-it. I was grossed out on two counts: it was horribly unsanitary and I was taking in hundreds of extra calories that were doing me in. I used a mask for the next three or four cakes, until I wasn't doing that anymore. Now I don't need the mask - it's a habit I no longer have. I also work with fondant a lot, the taste of which I do not hate. But I've gotten into the habit of thinking of it as so much Play-Doh, so that's not a problem anymore, either.

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BeanCountingBaker Posted 14 May 2010 , 6:00pm
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How about this solution. . .

I really hate the dentist and I know I have a cavity that needs to be filled. I know because when I eat a bite of icing it makes my tooth ache. This problem should be a good reason not to eat anything sugary and to go to the dentist. --- Sadly I find I have a tooth ache too often and I still haven't called the dentist.

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lissergirl Posted 14 May 2010 , 6:08pm
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This is SO funny! A co-worker of mine (and fellow caker) and I were just discussing trying to find an Icing Eaters Anonymous support group! Our issue isn't the buttercream - it's the Decorator's Cream Cheese Icing. I have to have a spoon (or 2 or 3) of it every night! Two nights ago, I resorted to eating the only cream cheese icing I had left- BLACK! I'm hooked!

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costumeczar Posted 14 May 2010 , 6:41pm
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Well, if you're really not using real cakes, only dummies, and you're really the only one eating the icing, a really fast way to teach yourself to work cleanly without doing any licking is to add about a cup of salt to each batch of icing. It won't affect the piping ability but you sure won't eat it. It will teach food cleanliness to even the biggest food-code violator pretty fast.

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Kitagrl Posted 14 May 2010 , 6:58pm
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The icing makes me sick...even if I get a sugar craving and eat some, I'm sick from the grease/butter in it!

I wish I could get sick of the cake part though...love munching on cake scraps. *sigh*

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Cranny Posted 14 May 2010 , 7:10pm
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When I'm 'practicing' on dummy cakes, I make what I call 'fake frosting'. Basically just shortening and PS. No other flavoring and I usually ad a little more shortening so it doesn't take appealing AT ALL!!! It took me a few time of dipping into my 'fake frosting', When it comes to using actual BC, I don't even THINK about it now! LOL

Mind over matter I guess...

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TexasSugar Posted 14 May 2010 , 7:43pm
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I had to make a cake once when I had a cold, so I used a surgical mask. It was only when there was a physical block between my mouth and my finger that I realized how often I was tasting everyting - batter, icing, you-name-it. I was grossed out on two counts: it was horribly unsanitary and I was taking in hundreds of extra calories that were doing me in. I used a mask for the next three or four cakes, until I wasn't doing that anymore. Now I don't need the mask - it's a habit I no longer have. I also work with fondant a lot, the taste of which I do not hate. But I've gotten into the habit of thinking of it as so much Play-Doh, so that's not a problem anymore, either.




I think you said it best. There is a point where we aren't really purposely eating it that you realise how much of a habit it is.

When I am paying attention to what I eat, I notice there are times when I am doing a cake I find myself tasting the icing more than I thought I did. One time, after the third sample, I turned around and spit into the trash can because I knew I really didn't want it, nor did my thighs need it.

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JGMB Posted 14 May 2010 , 7:55pm
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OP, I had to do a double-take to make sure that I hadn't written this myself! Not only do I love frosting, too, but I'm also a "Julie S"!!!!!!!!!

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Texas_Rose Posted 14 May 2010 , 7:57pm
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Well, if you're really not using real cakes, only dummies, and you're really the only one eating the icing, a really fast way to teach yourself to work cleanly without doing any licking is to add about a cup of salt to each batch of icing. It won't affect the piping ability but you sure won't eat it. It will teach food cleanliness to even the biggest food-code violator pretty fast.




icon_lol.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gif I should make up a batch of that for the kids and the hubby, who wait until my back is turned to steal frosting from the bowl. I keep a box of plastic spoons on my counter, and if they have to have a taste, they use a spoon and it's one taste only with that spoon.

I just remembered a funny story about licking the icing. When my youngest was turning one, I was sitting at the table working on her cake. I was only looking at the cake, not looking past it, and I hadn't noticed that she was on the table. I noticed that the bottom tier was getting a shiny wet groove in it and I started trying to cover it up with the spatula. (This was when I first started doing cakes so I thought my cake was just doing something funny.) Then the parts where I had covered it started getting the same mark, so I looked to see if there was something on the table dragging in the icing as I turned the cake on the turntable. There was...the baby was laying on the table with her tongue stuck out, licking the cake as it turned on the turntable. Fortunately she couldn't reach the top tier and that's what we served at her party icon_biggrin.gif

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Mel2085 Posted 14 May 2010 , 7:58pm
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I am past the point of liking frosting.....I can't stand it!!

It is the funny the only frosting and cake for that matter is a Duncan Hines chocolate cake (NOT doctored up) and Duncan Hines chocolate frosting (NOT doctored up) and I think the only reason I like that is because that is what my grandma always made me when I went to visit (which was only once or twice a year)

But when I started I would open a beer (I don't like beer) I would take a sip or two and then decorate and after the taste of beer in my mouth frosting tasted HORRIBLE!! now I tried margaritas but I just ended up with a horrible looking cake and I was a little tipsy! icon_lol.gif

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Julie_S Posted 15 May 2010 , 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by costumeczar

Well, if you're really not using real cakes, only dummies, and you're really the only one eating the icing, a really fast way to teach yourself to work cleanly without doing any licking is to add about a cup of salt to each batch of icing. It won't affect the piping ability but you sure won't eat it. It will teach food cleanliness to even the biggest food-code violator pretty fast.




I would imagine that the icing would get grainy from the salt. Have you done this before?

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costumeczar Posted 15 May 2010 , 2:42pm
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Well, if you're really not using real cakes, only dummies, and you're really the only one eating the icing, a really fast way to teach yourself to work cleanly without doing any licking is to add about a cup of salt to each batch of icing. It won't affect the piping ability but you sure won't eat it. It will teach food cleanliness to even the biggest food-code violator pretty fast.



I would imagine that the icing would get grainy from the salt. Have you done this before?




Yep, and it stopped a bunch of fourth-grade girls from sucking the icing out of their bags during a cake class, so if it can do that it works! Put salt in the fat when you're creaming it at the beginning of the process (it doesn't have to be that much, any amount if going to make it nasty) and let it go until it smooths out. Or you can dissolve it in the liquid.

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Kiddiekakes Posted 15 May 2010 , 3:44pm
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Like Indydebi said....after you eat if for a day or so you no longer want any..I have been decorating for 9 years and I never eat the icing..

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indydebi Posted 15 May 2010 , 10:10pm
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Like Indydebi said....after you eat if for a day or so you no longer want any..I have been decorating for 9 years and I never eat the icing..


Today was my grandkids birthday party and even then, I left the icing on the plate. (of course it WAS spideyman blue, red and black and I was busy making fun of everyone ELSE'S teeth and lips and didn't want any paybacks! icon_rolleyes.gificon_biggrin.gif )

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ladycakes85 Posted 15 May 2010 , 10:34pm
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Eating icing has never been my thing. However, i'm always risking salmonella by eating the cake batter itself icon_smile.gif I like the taste of batter more than a baked cake. Haha icon_smile.gif

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QueenMo Posted 15 May 2010 , 10:44pm
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ick...yeah it's like the people who work at chocolate factories and then can't stand it after a while working there. i can't stand it! i'll test it to make sure it's good but yuck!

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denetteb Posted 15 May 2010 , 11:25pm
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I haven't tried it but I read somewhere that for icing practice you can use straight shortening. Seems like it might work. Ice, decorate, scrape it off and re-use it. Once I accidentally made a batch of icing from rancid butter from my hoarder moms house. I used that stuff over and over again and was never tempted to taste cause it was so awful. Plus it started out pink and purple and after getting all mixed together turned a yucky color, so a yucky color could be another suggestion too. Or if you want to use your usual recipe don't use any flavoring at all, or a flavor you don't like (mint would do it for me) , and leave it out so it is always room temp so it is handy to practice with but after a while you wouldn't even want to try it cause it is old.

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Apti Posted 16 May 2010 , 4:19am
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Just finished Wilton Courses 1 and 2 and starting Course 3. In the process, I've discovered several fascinating things: 1) I LOVE CAKE DECORATING!!! 2) Cake decorating is very expensive, and 3) I can't eat any of my beautiful cakes.

I too licked the frosting, it was easier and tasted good--after all, it was for my family... Then I got very, very sick and found out I can't tolerate fats. Hmmm, you think maybe that a pound of Crisco might count? I'm finding that my 2 layered 8" rounds and 9x13 sheets require an astonishing 4 pounds of frosting per cake. Since it causes acute pain, I now find it incredibly easy NOT to lick the frosting. I strongly suggest you chew gum and don't learn how not-to-lick the way I did.

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FullHouse Posted 16 May 2010 , 3:51pm
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1) Wine & frosting do not taste good together.
2) A glass or two of wine is a great way to feel less stressed while doing a cake
3) When I'm relaxed, my fondant goes on smoother

WIN, WIN, WIN icon_smile.gif.

If I absolutely need to taste test when adding flavorings, (with a clean spoon), I either use DH or taste and spit out into the garbage.

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prterrell Posted 16 May 2010 , 7:06pm
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How do I not eat the icing? Same way I don't do a lot of things. I just don't. Will-power, self-control, whatever you want to call it. icon_biggrin.gif

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