you can go and buy a bucket from your local sams club
You can get Rich's Bettercreme from Sam's Club or GFS (Gordon Food Services). I buy the kind that I just whip up in my mixer.
The recipe for that stuff has a bunch of weird chemical preservatives in it. So I'm sure it would be difficult to find all the ingredients for that.
Have you tried searching for whipped topping recipes in our recipe section?
When is this cake due? Would you have time to order a carton of unwhipped instead? You might have more luck coloring it if you go with unwhipped and whip it yourself.
If not, be sure to call ahead to that Sam's to make sure they will sell it to you and if so, if they have enough. It is grad season, I work at a Sam's and we've been getting down to the last bucket on some stuff.
The worst that can happen is they say no.
Then of course you would be back to square one. But I know all the Sam's in my area sell their frosting. Btw, if you end up going to Sam's, they also sell their colored but'r'creme frosting for very cheap, around $10. I only mention it because one of the colors is black, and we know how difficult black can be at times, especially if you can't start with chocolate bc as a base!
Another question, I bought the Wiltons Sports Ball Pan Kit for another cake I am doing and it has 4 pkgs of the Wiltons premade icing....the lady at the bakery at Wal-Mart said that it is very similar in taste and texture to the BetterCream. Do you know if this is true? And if so has anyone ever worked with it? All I need to do is ice the cake solid the decorations are going to be all fondant. My main concern is how many days in advance can I need to make it since I want to make it to taste so that I have enough time to run to Sams if it is gross or no where near the same as whipped.
I think the premade would be more like an american buttercream rather than a whipped. We always tell people who ask that the whipped(Bettercreme) is more like a sweet cool whip. But I've never had wilton's premade icing, or any of their icing really. I stick to my recipe I found on here.
The bakery should have enough colors on hand, but it really doesn't hurt to call and ask before you go. Especially if you're going to be driving an hour to get there.
As far as the time frame goes, I'm finishing up a bridal shower cake tonight for a party tomorrow evening. I baked on monday, froze tuesday, carved/iced/ and covered with fondant yesterday, and decorated this morning. Tonight I'm going to stack, put on the finishing touches and take it over. Hope that helps. I made the icing last week though because I know I'm super busy at work so I did as much as I could as early as I could.
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