Cake Decorating

[somegroovychick]

Re: Cake Decorating

@Femme_Fatale

thanks SGC. I cannot get the cream right. The instructor and another girl beat their buttercream in their electric mixing bowls, the one all the girls were raving about at GS a while ago, i totally forgot what they r called. so they just turn them mixer on and let it go for a good while. The more u beat it the smoother it is. I have a hand mixer and anything that requires being beaten more than 5 mins becomes a pain to me. i tried to stand there holding it for as long as i could but its never long enough

you’re talking about the kitchenaid stand mixer… i haven’t used mine yet, not enough counter space. doh! i use a basic hand mixer too.

i always use the wilton recipe buttercream icing (http://www.wilton.com/recipes/recipesandprojects/icing/bcream.cfm) and it usually comes together pretty quick… literally 5 minutes by the clock should be more than enough to get a nice smooth icing… its a pretty long time when it comes to mixing things, you know?

as for too sweet, FF, i only use two cups of sugar and everything else remains as per recipe. have you tried that? cutting back the sugar or substituting splenda for it will make it less sweet for sure.

here’s some inspiration! these are cakes a colleague/friend of mine made… she’s very practiced at making flowers, but she also uses the wilton icing recipe, except she uses corn syrup to thin it out and it always add this lovely gloss that i just can’t replicate, dammit.

these are icing flowers… see the gloss?

each flower on top of this wedding cake took 45 minutes! the butterfly is made of fondant… and i just realised so are the flowers- they’re not icing like i originally thought. gah! fondant is so fussy, i don’t want to work with it again.