His party is on Saturday and he's just now telling me he doesn't like buttercream and can I buy frosting at the store. Ewww now that I've been making my own for a while now. What other type frosting can I make at home so that I don't have to buy at the store? His cake, by the way, is going to be strawberry and the design is an army tank with green icing. Thanks for any help!!

I have a friend who doesnt like buttercream, usually i do those with some form of whipped cream frosting. sometimes if in a rush i just use cool-whip. but you can get whipped topping ex. Rich's and make it up yourself. its a little light in consistencey so if its going to be used for major decorating it may be difficult

What kind of buttercream do you use so we can stay away from that?

Edited to say: Geesh I just re-read my post and it sounded off. Excuse my poor command of English. I'm not a native-speaker of it. What I meant was if your BC was shortening- or butter-based etc. so we can maybe give a different twist to it. Also, what does your son not like about BC?

I have a friend who uses Pastry Pride only and her cakes rival any buttercream cake!

My son doesnt like buttercream also. He thinks its too sweet. So I make an easy frosting using a pint of heavy cream, instant pudding, 1 tsp vanilla and a 1/4c of conf. sugar.
Add all your in ingredients into a bowl and whip until firm. It taste great!
When you make your tank go ahead and color it as usual and either use a straw for your gun and cover it in fondant. I made mine with gumpaste and let it harden. You can see a picture of the one I did in my photos.

I've used Julie's Less Sweet BC (which I like) and a couple of others that I've found on this site... just your typical PS/Crisco/butter/vanilla combo. For whatever reason, he just doesn't like BC... he says it's too "buttery".

weirdkd... does your frosting crust or stay soft? That sounds like a good recipe to try.

I know what you mean. I make IMBC exclusivily for my cakes and my daughter likes the canned stuff in the store...go figure! Why not try a whipped ganache either chocolate or white chocolate. You could even just pour it on the cake instead of whipping it.
Jacqui

Hmmm to tell you the trueth Im not sure. I think it stays soft. I always cover my cakes with fondant after.

You can also take a big pretzel stick and cover it in dark choc and use as your gun for the tank...

Two things...

Fooby... I totally understood your question. No apologies needed at all. You "spoke" well and correct. I usually use a mixture of Crisco/butter in my BC.

Weirkd... I so did not mean to type "weirdkd"... I misread your screen name. I was not subtly insinuating that you are "weird". *smiling*

Here's a recipe that doesn't taste buttery or greasy, crusts and it's great for high humidity. Instead of 1/2 cup milk, I use flavored coffee creamer (chocolate raspberry and caramel hazelnut and they were both delicious!). You can either use Viva paper towel method of the Melvira method. It turns out great and the kids love it!!

This is a recipe from vrmcc1/Val. She has posted this in the recipe section but for some reason it hasn't come up.

HTH

Thanks so very much for that recipe, Fooby. Would this be way too much to frost an 8" square and 6" round? If so, I could half the recipe.

i posted something similar recently. my boss doesn't like BC cause of butter or Crisco. But he will eat cream cheese icing, made w/cc, whipping cream and PS.

Oh dont worry! Not the first time! I do it myself sometimes. I blame it on my husband having the last name Weir ! Not my fault my middle intial is d!!! I should of used a different screen name. I tried to change it but it didnt work.

how about a cream cheese based icing.

I know this isn't a decorated cake, but one of our favorites is a simple Jello cake with Cool Whip topping. YUM!!!! (Jello cake is white cake baked, poked with holes, and Jello minus 1/2 cup water poured over it and chilled)

If it's because it's too sweet and you usually make the confectioner's sugar + crisco/butter kind, he might like an IMBC better.

If he thinks american style buttercream is buttery then stay away from IMBC or any of it's cousins. I second (or third?) the suggestion for a whipped cream cheese frosting.

I know nothing about IMBC so I'm assuming it's just as buttery. A couple of y'all gave out some recipes that look good and I may try one of those. I would LOVE to use cream cheese (can't go wrong with anything cream cheese IMO!!) but my husband wouldn't eat it... weirdo. Thanks for the help, y'all!

Kitagrl... a Jell-O cake is Yummy!!

You should check the recipes here on CC there are quite a few different types and flavors. I love to expirement with icing. Some are great for icing others great for decorating only.

What about a 7 minute icing?

What does a 7-Minute Icing taste like? Is it like a meringue of sorts? Is it sweet?

Thanks for all the good responses so far... I really appreciate the help and ideas.

yes.. a 7 minute or boiled icing is a meringue and it is sweet and fluffy. It's sticky and fluffy and sweet. I like it alot. There are a couple recipes around and different methods.. it's also fat free.. but not calorie free.. LOL.

7-minute frosting is YUMMY! It tastes like homemade marshmallows!

Julie