Frosting Recipes, Tips and Ideas

Frosting Recipes:

If you cannot get the smooth look on the side just use the comb, so nobody will ever notice. Clean the board and present with your border on the top and bottom.

Butter cream frosting is good testing and creamy. If you avoid using shortening you will have the butter cream frosting yellow, if you use half butter and half shortening or white margarine it will be off white and the frosting will hold longer during the hot weather.

Any left over butter cream can be frozen in air tight container for about 3 month. To defrost the frosting, leave it on the counter 1 day before use it so it will be ready by the time you need to use it. Mix it little bit to take the air bubble out.

Whipping cream is a better choice if you don't like frosting. The only thing you cannot do with whipped cream is to make flowers. You can do big borders, that just about it.

To use non dairy whip cream or pastry cream, sold in decorate store, frozen or some grocery store might carry this type of icing. Use to ice and decorate ice cream cake. To color this type of icing use only the paste or gel color not the one with water base (airbrush color) and you will be able to make flower even roses if you practice..........

Decorator's Note:
All the Frosting Recipes that I have here, I already tried and experimented using butter, good kind of margarine and all the margarine subtitute. The result it wasn't the same as the used of white margarine or the shortening.
When the wheather was hot, my frosting was melting. When the wheather was cold, the frosting was so hard and I have to keep adding liquid. Then after a while, the frosting was melting too. Then when I used the margarine or butter subtitute (some brand) my frosting was seperated. Maybe later on I come up with good Frosting Recipes for you. But for now, this is all I have.
If you have any good Frosting Recipes and you don't mind to share with the rest of us, be my guest. I will love to try it and share it in my web site. "Happy decorating..."