Basketweave With Cream Cheese Icing????
Decorating By notjustcake Updated 8 Aug 2006 , 9:48pm by notjustcake
Hi I am trying to make another practice cake but this time I want to try with cream cheese icing instead of BC is this possible or will the icing be too thin? Should I make it thicker with more sugar???? How bout BC roses on top will the combination of icings not be good? Any help is appreciate it. I want cream cheese icing cause I want to make the cake butter cream and I think it will compliment well with the cream cheese but I only learned how to make roses the Wilton way with stiff BC and I want to practice both the basketweave and BC roses.
i have done two cakes this way.
results:
if you have hot hands -- ARGH! need to split icing between at least 3 bags w/ 1 in fridge and 1 in freezer and 1 you are using. when too soft, into freezer, freezer to fridge and fridge gets used. for me the rotation was about every 5 minutes.
will work will if using a crusting cream cheese frosting -- but heat sensitive so cool temps a must (crank up the A/C!)
BC roses ok, but can make from cream cheese frosting as well (they'll just be "softer" - a bit more "droopy" if you will)
my cakes were butter pecan w/ cream cheese icing and filling and a butter almond cake with almond slices mixed into the cream cheese filling.
Thank you for the tips I guess I will try it, have you tried the cream cheese icing recipe from this site?
Thank you for the tips so for basketweave crusting one then
You can definately use cream cheese icing. Many of the cakes in my photos are cream cheese icing including the one with the roses around the edge. Since I use mainly cream cheese icing I've learned a few things. If you want to do roses you definately should mix in some crisco. When you're making the icing make it stiffer than you think it needs to be because it will soften up when you work with it. For example, you mix up what feels like stiff consistency in the bowl, but when you work with it, it turns more to medium. Adding meringue powder will help some too.
Does anyone have a good cream cheese recipe for the basketweave?
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