Buttercream Stiffness

Decorating By tracy1974 Updated 5 Feb 2007 , 1:26am by scakes

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tracy1974 Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 9:45pm
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how can i get my buttercream to be stiff enough for decorations such as roses etc.. i just dont want to keep adding p.c. oh and i was wondering if any one else had this problem,no matter how stiff i get the frosting to be, and put in my bag after 5 min of squeezing my frosting is like butter from the heat of my hands any way to fix this?

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Granpam Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 9:53pm
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I have hot hands too. I find that If I keep putting the icing bag in the fridge I get by it justs take a lot longer. I could use two bags but don't want to clean that many bags . A lot of people wear a cotton glove like those for wearing to bed with hand lotion. I tried them and just didn't like using them.

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weberm05 Posted 3 Feb 2007 , 10:28pm
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I heard also that using plastic bags heat up faster. I heard featherweight doesn't seem to have this problem or as bad.

Just what I was told...

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scakes Posted 5 Feb 2007 , 1:26am
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I'm a total newbie, but have only used parchment triangle bags and some more experienced cake decorators have told me this is one of the reasons a lot of people prefer the parchment - it doesn't heat up like the plastic bags will.

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