Hi everyone

I think I made a tactical error but luckly I have caught it in time. I am making an ear of corn for our corn roast Saturday. Ok so I made a jelly roll cake and made lemon filling wanting to stay with the yellow thing but then I was thinking today wont that be gross with buttercream frosting? So I went to the recipes here and found one for lemon icing and I am wondering if that would be good for decorating the "corn cob" or if it wont be the right consistancy or whatever.

Any ideas?
Melanie

it would go fine w/ lemon jelly roll.

of course, you could do the BC and then cover in a lightly lemon flavored MMF so you can easily create the kernels, etc.

and here's a little inspiration from boween (i just LOVE her cakes!)

corn and silo

I dont think buttercream tastes bad with lemon, I do it all the time, but I am sure a lemon icing would be good too.

How cool was that cake!! WOW!

I wanted to stay away from fondant only because I worked with it only once before last week and I have to clean the house, which is quite the job, so I want to keep the cake simple.

I think I will use the lemon icing recipe it seems like I should be able to thicken it enough and then I will just pipe on kernels.

One of these days I will get cake pics up!

Thanks for the link I am printing it out to use as inspiration

Melanie

You know as I think about it I think you both are right it would be like a sweet/sour thing and that usually is a good combo. I am most likely just overthinking this as usual.

Melanie

I've made several cakes that I've filled with lemon filling and used lemon flavored buttercream to ice. Just add lemon flavoring, or lemon flavored Loran oil into the buttercream recipe. For that extra zing I add a little lemon zest. It works just fine.

I have done white buttercream and also lemon. Both work great, and some people have had both types of cake (the cake was lemon too) and thought they were great.

For lemon BC, I substitute all of the liquid in my decorator BC recipe with fresh squeezed lemon juice. It's wonderful!

Haven't read all the replies, but my MIL makes a lemon filled cake and then mixes vanilla frosting with a block of softened cream cheese. Don't know if it would work for a decorated cake, you may have to stiffen it. good luck!