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Piped icing

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  • 12-11-2011 8:59am
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    Rosy Posy
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    Looking for a really good icing recipe that can be piped for a child's birthday cake. Have used butter cream before but it is a bit gross- all that butter! Was hoping for something a bit lighter without having to resort to raw egg white...any suggestions?


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    Acoshla
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    The only option in between the butter/icing sugar icing and a very light one with egg white (like a mascarpone/tiramisu one which wouldn't pipe great anyway) would be an Italian Meringue Buttercream type, easy enough to make once you get the hang of it. For piping not many of them are suitable, the butter/icing sugar one is the most stable and holds it's shape best, which is why it is used more even though it tastes poor (rank would be more my description of it, ugh).


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    Sigma Force
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    There is a ton of butter in buttercream you could maybe make one with fresh whipped double cream with icing sugar added..no idea if that would work though.

    Perhaps flavouring the buttercream might help, kids generally don't mind all the butter. I make a nutella butter cream and it is buttery but not as buttery as a plain one although it does come out brown.

    Italian meringue perhaps..the egg is pretty much cooked in the recipe.

    Mascarpone icing is so yum it does involve raw egg yolks and egg whites adding icing sugar to it will help thicken it.

    Something like a lemon or orange buttercream might help cut the buttery taste a bit if you do go with buttercream.

    Dunnes sell cartons of pasturised egg whites which is safer to use.


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    Rosy Posy
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    Think I will try a mascarpone icing with whipped cream instead of egg

    The italian meringue icing seems way too dodgy- don't want to be messing around with something that could go wrong when I've got a load of other food to prepare

    For my daughter's birthday I used a cream cheese icing but it was way too stiff and really hard to work with.

    The nutella sounds yum but it needs to be coloured so not sure if flavoring will work

    I'm sure you're right tho, as long as its sweet and looks nice the kids won't care about the vile buttery-ness of it


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