This is probably a stupid question, but when you use a different type of icing on a cake, besides buttercream, do you or can you also do the decorations in that icing? Like the borders, flowers, etc. or are those still done with the buttercream? Theres alot of recipes for different types of icing, and I wasn't sure if the whole cake was being decorated with that, or just iced with it? Thanks! Gale

I am made Jeff Arnett's chocolate buttercream icing on a groom's cake and used the same icing for decorating with. It turned out great!! It was made with butter and ingredients I don't normally used in my regular buttercream icing. I guess it depends on how sturdy it is and if it could stand up for your decorations. You could make the recipe stiffer by adding more powdered sugar.
Vicky, MO

I usually ice in BC and decorate as well, but sometimes some of my accents are done with royal icing.
Is this what you mean??

I usually ice and decorate with buttercream also. But what I meant was like if you use say a whipped cream cheese, or something else besides buttercream. I've seen some pic where it says they were iced with different icing so I was just wondering if all the decorations on it were also done with that same icing.

i did an italian cream cake about a month ago and the client asked for cream cheese icing. I ended up using a crusting cream cheese icing to frost the cake...but for the borders I used my regulaer buttercream icing. I have also seen a lot of cakes that are frosted in buttercream and have fondant decorations on them. You can use a little piping gel to adhere fondent decorations to buttercream icing.

Sorry, but I've only used b/c icing.

I guess it just depends on the consistency of the icing you choose to use huh? I was thinking the same though, that if somebody wanted the cake iced in a special kind of icing that I would just do the decorations in the buttercream. Thanks everyone!

I guess it just depends on the consistency of the icing you choose to use huh? I was thinking the same though, that if somebody wanted the cake iced in a special kind of icing that I would just do the decorations in the buttercream. Thanks everyone!