Can You Decorate A Cake With Cream Cheese Icing?
Decorating By satindoll_101 Updated 11 Jun 2017 , 3:13pm by gscout73
I've been asked to make a sheet carrot cake with cream cheese icing--no fondant. I wanted to do shell border and some swirly decorations with the cream cheese icing, but in the past when I've decorated with cream cheese icing it never holds it shape well.. I've tried diff. ways of making the icing, made sure I don't overbeat etc etc but decorating with cream cheese icing always makes me nervous. Any tips? TIA!
Yes, you can decorate with cream cheese icing, and there are several that work. Look for cream cheese buttercream. This is what I've used and it is delicious and holds up to piping.
http://www.cakecentral.com/recipe/4153/decorators-cream-cheese-frosting
yes you can as gscout says -- and you can also use a different icing to decorate with, like a regular buttercream -- no worries
Thank you! I normally don't use shortening in my icings, but maybe for cream cheese it's necessary...? If it tastes good though I'm sold!
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Thank you! I normally don't use shortening in my icings, but maybe for cream cheese it's necessary...? If it tastes good though I'm sold!
It's delicious. Try a batch to sample.
That's beautiful! You would have had me fooled that it's cream cheese! Thanks for the info!
Just an update on this thread. I've seen 2 recipes floating around CC. They are fairly similar but wondering if you have a preference. One is the decorator cream cheese icing mentioned above, but there is also a crusting cream cheese recipe. Here are both links below:
http://www.cakecentral.com/recipe/2047/crusting-cream-cheese-icing
http://www.cakecentral.com/recipe/4153/decorators-cream-cheese-frosting
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