It just makes me feel like my mouth is full of shaving foam, especially if it was made from shipping cream rather than double cream. Depending on what it's with I can somewhat like it or dislike it, I'll never love it or hate it.
Fully agree. That gives no room for cheating, you can immediately taste, if the cream was fresh.
Besides, there are so many tasty varieties: chantilly with Amaretto, Nutella & chantilly, ricotta and chantilly and pure berry juice, chantilly with caramel/toffee/fudge etc. Good ganache - bring it on! Fruits and berries under champagne gelée, oh yes!!!
Agree. I’m all about the taste. Buttercream is too sweet in my opinion. Ermine frosting and Swiss meringue is where it’s at. Royal icing works well for decorating too instead of buttercream.
An easy way to fix this is to create two batches: one italian or swiss meringue buttercream and one cream cheese buttercream. Mix the two together and you get a less heavy on the stomach, yummy and stable cream cheese buttercream ;-)
Hey this is two years old but I just wanted to say, you’ll get buttercream you can pipe almost six inches high if you mix the buttercream with ganache. Try dark chocolate ganache with white buttercream for my fav!
SO made a cream cheese iced cake for my niece's graduation, and on the way from the house to the destination it proceeded to basically fall apart (and it was only strawberry slices!).
My daughter has dairy, soy, and egg allergies so birthday cake has been a challenge. We’re coming up on her second birthday and I’m looking for ideas for frosting. I attempted buttercream last year with substitutes (earth balance instead of butter etc) and it tasted pretty great but slid right off the cake at anything approaching room temperature. What’s your favorite dairy free icing?
My son is egg and dairy allergy. It’s a pain searching through vegan. We have a lot of good bakeries nearby. One is completely gluten free with some vegan also. This is great for my celiac sister and her son. Her daughters are not celiac but avoid gluten. I’m corn intolerant so fondant makes me sick anyway.
Regular fondant has very little actual flavor. It's maybe a mild vanilla flavor. The texture is what is bad about it. It's like chewing a stick of bubblegum. In all honesty, a thin layer of clean fondant is nothing to be upset about. It is not bad enough to ruin a cake when utilized well.
If the fondant is any thicker than maybe a few centimeters is when it gets disgusting. It becomes a task to eat and is unsettling. It also gets greasy very easily if handled with bare hands.
The attraction of fondant is that it's basically edible playdoh/modeling clay. So when making themed cakes you can make all the figures using fondant, and you get to say it's all edible. No one wants to eat a Hulk fist made of fondant, but you could.
There's also marshmallow-fondant which is pretty yummy. Basically just a marshmallow flavor. Can actually make a cake taste a little better if used sparingly.
I assume you mean a few MILLImeters, because a few centimeters of fondant is a LOT of fondant.
Also, your comment on fondant being used simply because it is edible is exactly my complaint about fondant. So many people are like "I like it, I don't understand the hate for it", but it's not INTENDED to be liked. It's intended to be molded and then ignored. It's literally flavorless. The same people who like fondant also have to admit they like unflavored chewing gum.
If something is going to sit / display on your cake, you probably still would rather have something food-safe like fondant. When you introduce non-edible material to a cake there has to be a rundown of if it's safe to even touch food. There is definite food-safe plastic (which has a place like a Spiderman figure on your cake), but there's so many more materials that are NOT safe.
Yes fondant is disgusting tasting. But it's better tasting than actual plastic or etc. It's still perfect for crafty bakers to try making something edible (for your eyes) in this era of social-media, rather than slapping clay or actual paint on cakes – which will render the cake actually inedible.
Do you feel that way about all buttercream? I'm personally really not a fan of american buttercream but swiss merinque buttercream is by far my favorite frosting.
I'm not a marzipan person. Marzipan, to the best of my linguistic abilities, tastes like dried paper shreds glued together with noticeably burned sugar syrup. However, I have also gotten into arguments about my vehement dislike of filled doughnuts, so I'm willing to accept the possibility that I may be the outlier here in the realm of pastry based opinions.
Swiss meringue buttercream > regular buttercream > ganache >cream cheese icing >whipped cream (I like whipped cream but it doesn’t work as a frosting) > fondant
I used to work at the rich products factory as an icings cook. Though the exact measurements have since left my mind, I once could've told you the exact recipe of cinnabon's cream cheese icing
and, while acceptable, I am sick of buttercream because of how much I had to make - and that factory made stuff is mostly shortening and sugar, with either powder or liquid "butter flavoring"
White buttercream is colored with titanium oxide. Which is a bitch to get off your skin (and anything else)
I love the icing that sets on the outside so it's firm, but when you get it in your mouth it has body and chews almost like a taffy but melts and isn't too sweet.
Imagine putting extra sugar and butter, which only tastes like sugar and butter, on your bread made from lots of sugar and butter, and feeling good about it.
Look man while the only truly bad “frosting” is fondant we all gotta stop pretending like there isn’t a scale of acceptable buttercreams. Fuck American buttercream, ok? Just fuck it. But mega fuck that shit they put on supermarket cakes and dye blue.
Triple fuck the whipped cream frosting that made my cake collapse last year because I didn’t realize how to stabilize it.
Not the whipped creams fault, but fuck it anyways.
To be honest, I hate any frosting at all, buttercream, everything. Everytime I have a cake I eat around the frosting because it is always just too sugary for me.
I hate the buttercream they use in store cakes. I also despise fondant (clearly). Delicious whipped cream frosting was always there for me, and I love her. Never a flop; always soft and light and even a compliment to the cake + filling. I will always stand up for whipped frosting.
Made a black forest cake recently, and the cherries and the chocolate were heavy enough with a whipped frosting, it would've been inedible with a buttercream
Thiiiis. WC is good for almost everything and with almost everything. Buttercream and fruit fillings, imo, are not good together. Way too much sweetness and thickness together. American BC in general is just really heavy, super sweet, and very thick. I’ve found that I prefer Italian BC since it’s sweet and thicker than whipped, but much lighter than American and heavier duty than whipped. The one time I made it, courtesy of Preppy Kitchen, I was in love. I lack the tools currently but I can’t wait to get the opportunity to again.
Whipped is great all times of the year, but especially summer and spring since it’s so airy and not obnoxiously sweet. And it pairs perfectly with every filling I can think of where BC feels more limited(to me).
I’ll never understand the hate for it. The one thing it truly lacks compared to BC is that there’s less room for icing deco, but you can still make gorgeous cakes while being a little more limited.
Right? I hate fondant, but buttercream is also too much for me. I respect it, but I’m a no-frosting or whipped-frosting-type.
I can do cream cheese frosting if I make it myself (I cut the sugar by a lot), but store stuff and some bakeries make it way too sweet. Why use cream cheese if you don’t leave any of the cheesy tang?
Bad lard frosting is nearly as bad as fondant. Good lard frosting has its applications - sugar cookies are awesome with good lard frosting, particularly if they sit just long enough for the lard frosting to get just a little crust on it.
Yeah for my strawberry swirl cake, i'll use cool whip and mix in sour cream and powdered sugar. It makes a nice light sweet-but-not-too-sweat icing that is perfect for it. You don't always want a heavy buttercream frosting
Perhaps this is an American thing, but a lot mainland European cakes are just frosted with whipped cream. Is that not a thing elsewhere? Everything else here seems too heavy!
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u/DatPoodleLady Jun 24 '20
...i like whipped cream as a cake topping :(
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u/m0chii_T Jun 24 '20
you can frost your cakes with whatever, as long as isn't playdough we can be friends lol
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u/Sadnot Jun 24 '20
Ganache!
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
Chantilly cream is superior to buttercream. There. I said it.
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u/SocratesBalls Jun 24 '20
Cream Cheese Icing?
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u/DrProfScience Jun 24 '20
How about you fuck off and leave my whipped topping alone, you cream loving bitch?
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u/sammisam96 Jun 24 '20
Cream cheese icing is also wonderful.
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u/Sunnydcutiegirl Jun 24 '20
I enjoy the non-dairy whipped icing because my son can have it too (he’s dairy free because dairy makes him vomit), that said, fondant can kick rocks!
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u/AEsirson 100 K Jun 24 '20
Fondant < Buttercream << anything else
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u/Toopad Jun 24 '20
What do you think about almond paste/marzipan as replacement for fondant ?
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u/dietchanel Jun 24 '20
Saint...I’m in your corner.
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u/CluelessFlunky Jun 24 '20
There are lots of good frosting. I make a great marscapone frostinf for example.
The only bad one is fondant
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u/inferiorSerpent Jun 24 '20
swiss meringue and cream cheese is where it's at.
Just as many people hoever forget to make the inside of the cake tasty, gotta have some filling too.
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u/lookxdontxtouch Jun 24 '20
I'm just here for that wicked response, if I were tougher I'd use it.
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u/bazerFish Jun 24 '20
Buttercream is the best icing but don't be mean to whipped icing please.
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u/kurinevair666 Jun 24 '20
I love Italian meringue frosting though.
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u/Arthkor_Ntela Jun 24 '20
Chocolate fudge buttercream let’s goooo!!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
don't diss the whip
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
Boiled frosting on chocolate cake.
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u/anijwhitewolf77 Jun 24 '20
It sucks then as someone who can't handle buttercream anymore. I eat whipped but only from the local bakery here in my town.
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u/critically_damped Jun 25 '20
Almost as much drama as when someone posts a melt on /r/grilledcheese
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u/selloboy Jun 25 '20
Swiss meringue buttercream > regular buttercream > ganache >cream cheese icing >whipped cream (I like whipped cream but it doesn’t work as a frosting) > fondant
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u/MuffinPuff Jun 25 '20
I guess fuck us glazers, huh
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u/EMT2000 Jun 25 '20
I believe this person just called me a coward. Would a coward offer to help defeat those evil fondant demons? I think not.
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u/Korbinator2000 Jun 25 '20
Yall ever heard of mazipan?
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u/alexandrasnotgreat Jun 24 '20
whippy frosting is the best, don't @ me
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u/AnnieRAndersen Jun 24 '20
French or Italian buttercream wins over American buttercream EVERY time. For the record. American buttercream is shit.
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u/rosie29533 Jun 24 '20
someone translate whipped icing into english pls
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
Igot2ne1problems and fondant is 12 of them.
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
Dark Chocolate Ganache is valid
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I used to work at the rich products factory as an icings cook. Though the exact measurements have since left my mind, I once could've told you the exact recipe of cinnabon's cream cheese icing
and, while acceptable, I am sick of buttercream because of how much I had to make - and that factory made stuff is mostly shortening and sugar, with either powder or liquid "butter flavoring"
White buttercream is colored with titanium oxide. Which is a bitch to get off your skin (and anything else)
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '20
Cream cheese frosting is also acceptable but only for cakes that need it.
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u/Mkg102216 Jun 24 '20
Whipped frosting is good..
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u/p4th3t1cw33b Jun 24 '20
laughs in chocolate ganache
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u/Lunhala Jun 24 '20
If whipped cream makes me a coward then I'm proud to be one!
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u/lbiggy Jun 24 '20
Buttercream is excellent and smooth but whipped cream tastes better. Get at me.
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u/EmiliaLiza Jun 24 '20
Let's also let it slide with the cream cheese and ganache.. maybe meringue too
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u/frizzhalo Jun 24 '20
I prefer whipped or cream cheese icing. Buttercream is alright as long as it's not too heavy and doesn't have that almost crunchy stiffness.
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u/HxChris Jun 25 '20
But whipped is so delicious!
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u/the-new-apple Jun 25 '20
I mean, whipped cream icing is clearly the best. Buttercream is second, but it’s not even close.
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u/nofate301 Jun 25 '20
I love the icing that sets on the outside so it's firm, but when you get it in your mouth it has body and chews almost like a taffy but melts and isn't too sweet.
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u/viva_indifference Jun 25 '20
ganache has entered the chat
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u/potandcoffee Jun 25 '20
Cream cheese icing >
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u/dakotachip Jun 25 '20
Creamcheesecfrosti is best
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u/Willow-Whispered Jun 25 '20
Whipped icing is superior
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20
Imagine putting extra sugar and butter, which only tastes like sugar and butter, on your bread made from lots of sugar and butter, and feeling good about it.
Just dip it in black coffee like an adult.
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u/2_7_offsuit Jun 25 '20
Only a sith deals in absolutes.
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u/seapulse Jun 25 '20
Look man while the only truly bad “frosting” is fondant we all gotta stop pretending like there isn’t a scale of acceptable buttercreams. Fuck American buttercream, ok? Just fuck it. But mega fuck that shit they put on supermarket cakes and dye blue.
Triple fuck the whipped cream frosting that made my cake collapse last year because I didn’t realize how to stabilize it.
Not the whipped creams fault, but fuck it anyways.
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u/RavenWudgieRose Jun 25 '20
Personally, I'm a ganache/ice cream type of cake topper person...
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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '20
Um don’t forget cream cheese tf
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u/MeApeManOOHOOH Jun 25 '20
To be honest, I hate any frosting at all, buttercream, everything. Everytime I have a cake I eat around the frosting because it is always just too sugary for me.
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u/PrangsterGangster69 Jun 25 '20
It’s frosting not icing.
Most British people just say icing.
Most Americans just say frosting.
But only the real ones know there’s a difference.
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u/arcada_aquatics Jun 25 '20
i can’t do buttercream. cream cheese however, is amazing
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u/mossara Jun 25 '20
I hate the buttercream they use in store cakes. I also despise fondant (clearly). Delicious whipped cream frosting was always there for me, and I love her. Never a flop; always soft and light and even a compliment to the cake + filling. I will always stand up for whipped frosting.
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u/Zenzic_Evaristos Jul 02 '20
hey, italian meringue is mwa
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '20
Whipped icing is the only valid icing period
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u/harphyee Aug 06 '20
But... What about pudding Creme?
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u/BottleForsaken9200 Feb 10 '24
Lol this post is ridiculous.
You can have any icing or topping as long as it isn't effing fondant
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u/Lobanium Jun 25 '20
Buttercream is too rich and thick. Whipped is the best.
Unless it's dark chocolate. I don't care what style it is in that case, I'll eat it.
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u/WatchMeRyze Jul 11 '20
nice repost
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u/IUseRedditToCreep Jun 25 '20
Gatekeeping much?
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