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- From: TILLIE ELIZABETH HORAK <thorak@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Bakery icing
- Date: 19 May 1995 20:49:45 -0600
- Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950518184349.912A-100000@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
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- I do cake decorating and the recipe I use is as follows (it usually does
- have that thin crust that Patty was looking for):
-
- 1-1/2 c shortening
- 2 lbs confectioners sugar
- 2 tablespoons marshmallow creme
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (cake decorators and bakeries use clear to make the icing
- really white.
- 1 teaspoon van-o-van (found at a cake decorator's store)
- 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
- Mix together separately:
- about 1/2 cup water
- about 1 teaspoon salt.
-
- Cream the shortening and flavorings together. Then add the sugar, a
- little at a time, until the mixture begins to look like coarse crumbs.
- Then add salt water a little at a time until the mixture begins to get
- smooth and becomes the consistency of icing.
-
- Cake decorators generally like their icing on the stiff side, but it is a
- matter of personal taste. Add the salt water until it is the consistency
- you want.
-
- After you ice the cake, and it sits for a couple of hours, it should have
- that "micro-thin" crust your looking for.
-
- As a personal side note, I usually add more liquid vanilla flavoring and
- butter flavoring to my icing, because I want the taste, not the terrible
- sweetness of some icings. Almond extract can also be used in place of
- the vanilla, if you want to try something a little different. If you do
- use almond, I'd use less than the vanilla, because it tends to be a
- stronger flavoring.
-
- Note:
- Van-o-van is a powdered vanilla flavoring that is used (as far as I know)
- only by cake decorators. Every cake decorating store that I have been in
- has it in stock. I'm not really sure of the significance of it on the
- whole, perhaps Wilton could answer that. I do know that if you add more
- than what the recipe calls for, it makes your icing bitter. I have run
- out of it before and can certainly tell the difference.
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