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It Was A Dark Stormy Nighttime Frosting

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Ingredients: i loving loving cup sugar 1/4 loving loving cup nighttime rum (Goslings) ii egg whites 3 inch knob ginger, sliced pinch salt Directions: In a medium saucepan, select sugar, ginger slices likewise rum to a boil, stirring occasionally. Continue to boil until it reaches soft ball stage (when a drib of the syrup forms a soft ball when dropped inwards cool water) spell continuing to stir occasionally. Meanwhile, musical rhythm out the egg whites likewise mutual common salt to soft peaks. Keep the mixer running (for best results you lot lot take away a stand upwards upwards mixer or a friend to goal this following step) spell you lot lot strain a continuous catamenia of the molten syrup into the egg whites. Add the food dye. Beat for virtually v minutes or until the frosting is fluffy, glossy likewise cool. Frost cooled cake. My thoughts: Perfect frosting for dark & stormy cupcakes . Or chocolate, rum or vanilla cake. Or eat it from a spoon. Sumber https:

Ethereal Lemon Frosting

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Ingredients: 2 cups sugar 1/2 loving loving cup lemon juice iv egg whites pinch mutual common salt zest i lemon yellowish food coloring, if desired Directions: In a medium saucepan, pick out sugar, zest also lemon juice to a boil, stirring occasionally. Continue to boil until it reaches soft ball stage (when a drib of the syrup forms a soft ball when dropped inwards cool water) spell continuing to stir occasionally. Meanwhile, shell the egg whites also mutual common salt to soft peaks. Keep the mixer running (you signal a stand upwards upwards mixer or a friend to goal this side by times side step) spell yous strain a continuous period of time of the molten syrup into the egg whites. Add the food dye. Beat for most v minutes or until the frosting is fluffy, glossy also cool. Frost cooled cake. My thoughts: I love this frosting! Citrus is at its summit during the wintertime also I love taking reward of that also making to a greater extent than or less truly citrus packed rec

Blueberry Vanilla Edible Edible Bean Frosting

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Ingredients: ane loving loving cup sugar 1/4 loving loving cup water 2 egg whites 2/3 loving loving cup blueberries ane vanilla bean, dissever length wise pinch salt Directions: Beat the egg whites also every bit tabular array tabular array salt to soft peaks using an electrical mixer. Meanwhile, inwards a medium saucepan, select sugar, vanilla edible edible bean blueberries also every bit H2O to a boil, stirring occasionally, mashing the berries a bit amongst the back of your spoon. Continue to boil until it reaches soft ball stage (when a driblet of the syrup forms a soft ball when dropped inwards cool water) spell continuing to stir occasionally. Whisk the mixture through a fine sieve into a oestrus prophylactic standard loving loving cup also every bit discard the blueberries. Keep the mixer running (to deed prophylactic hold upward a stand upward upward mixer or a friend to goal this side by times side step) also every bit pour a continuous flow of molten syrup int

Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting

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Everyone is familiar with commercial bakery "buttercream" which is commonly made amongst shortening as good as it leaves a greasy or waxy motion painting home inwards your mouth, yuck!!  Todays recipe is for a low-cal as good as fluffy frosting (almost the consistency of whipped cream) called Swiss meringue buttercream. It is the creme de la creme of all frostings as good as it is slightly sweetness as good as extremely stable.   The recipe has a few steps, but it is proficient worth the attempt as good as as long as you follow a few tips, it is NOT hard to make. 5 egg whites (from large eggs) 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 1 pound of UNSALTED sweetness cream butter (room temperature) Small pinch of salt 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract Place the egg whites as good as sugar  in a drinking drinking glass or metallic element bowl (whisk together until proficient mixed) and solid the bowl over a gently simmering pan of H2O (don't allow t

Sturdy Butter Cream Frosting

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Traditionally, butter cream frosting is made amongst butter, powdered carbohydrate together with flavorings, however, I give away the recipes that role all butter, tend to jibe upwards heavy tasting, hard to movement amongst (it melts together with sags too easy) together with not the calorie-free fluffy frosting people expect. . I've decorated cakes for years together with I die on coming back to this easy, user friendly together with fluffy frosting recipe, made amongst half butter together with half white Crisco. Don't freak out most using Crisco inwards your frosting, you won't jibe upwards able to patch it is there (100% shortening is what most commercial bakeries role to build that fluffy frosting we all love) and, as you lot lot sack laissez passer give away see, it pipes nicely. . 1 loving loving cup white Crisco shortening 1 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 6 to 6½ cups of powdered sugar ½ loving loving cup whipping cream 2 teaspoons vanilla

Strawberry Frosting

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This quick likewise as dull strawberry frosting is alone delightful. I used fresh strawberries, simply I come upward across no reason why frozen (thawed) strawberries wouldn't work.  It has a light, fresh, fruity flavour likewise as was a big hitting at my house. 1 loving loving cup UNSALTED butter at room temperature iv cups powdered carbohydrate (see note) 1 teaspoon vanilla dash salt 5 tablespoons strawberry puree (see note) Whip the butter, amongst electrical mixer, until low-cal likewise as fluffy. Beat inwards powdered sugar, i loving loving cup at a time, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally. Add the strawberry puree (I alone pureed fresh strawberries inwards my food processor), vanilla likewise as salt. Beat till smooth. NOTE: The liquid of the strawberries testament vary for everyone. If your frosting seems every bit expert soft, alone add together together extra powdered carbohydrate (a short at a time) until yous learn the consistency yous want.  If yo

Perfect Cream Cheese Frosting

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There seems to concluding two main variations of cream cheese frosting. One is more than cheesy than sweetness inwards add-on to the other is way more than sweetness than cheesy. Personally, I don't attention for either. Today's recipe is a magical blend of both styles of cream cheese frosting. It is VERY smoothen inwards add-on to VERY creamy, it has the flavor of a GREAT cheesecake but it definitely has more than or less sweetness too....it's precisely perfect, AND it pipes adept !!  (2) 8 ounce packages full obese cream cheese (room temperature) 1/2 loving loving cup UNSALTED butter  (room temperature) 3 teaspoons vanilla extract 6 cups powdered sugar Beat the cream cheese inwards add-on to the UNSALTED butter in addition to electrical mixer (on high) until smoothen inwards add-on to creamy. Add the vanilla extract inwards add-on to the powdered sugar,( add powdered sugar, one loving loving cup at a time , beating until smoothen between each addition.

Old Fashioned Caramel Frosting

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This is i of those swell one-time classic recipes that gets passed downward from generation to generation because it is only SO delicious. It doesn't flush demand cake, I would motility happy with a bowl of this frosting every bit good every bit a large spoon!! This frosting would motility GREAT on ANY cake!! A true caramel flavor, not that simulated caramel kind. 1/2 loving loving cup butter (no substitutions) 1 loving loving cup nighttime brownish saccharide (packed tight) 1/3 loving loving cup heavy cream 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 cups powdered sugar 2 to iv tablespoons milk Melt the butter over medium low rut inwards a saucepan that has a heavy bottom (this helps the frosting not to scorch). Add the nighttime brownish saccharide every bit good every bit stir well. Bring it upwards to full boil (stirring all the time) Add the heavy cream (it testament bubble upwards a little, hence build certainly your saucepan is large enough). Return

Kid Friendly Jello Frosting!!

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UPDATE: New carbohydrate unloose selection at the terminate of this post. UPDATE: Since posting this on Pinterest, a few people have got commented that  this frosting deflated on them after a day at room temperature. I've never had this problem, because I live inward a DRY climate, but those of you lot lot living in HUMID climates are having this problem. So... if you lot lot live inward a humid climate, you'll involve to store the frosted cake in the fridge. This frosting recipe has a lot of things going for it. It is fast, super light, smooth inwards add-on to creamy on the natural linguistic communication (very similar to a vii min frosting, but thus much easier). Neatest of all, is that it is flavored with jello, thus you lot lot tin flame transportation away learn far inward ANY Jello flavour you lot lot like ...watermelon? blueberry? pina colada ? Kids testament LOVE this frosting. 3 ounce pkg. of Jello (favorite flavor) 2/3 loving loving

Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting

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This is a POSITIVELY DELICIOUS frosting recipe. What a overnice variation from classic chocolate frosting!! It has a smooth, thick texture also tastes non bad by times the spoonful!!   This is my novel "go to" recipe for frosting snack cakes, brownies also cupcakes, it is quick, ho-hum to construct also tastes great!! 1/2 loving loving cup shine peanut butter (I used Jiff) 1/2 loving loving cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 - 3/4  cup half also half (see note) 2  2/3 loving loving cup confectioners sugar Mix the peanut butter, cocoa powder, vanilla also a few tablespoons of the half also half until it is shine also creamy.  Add the sugar, tabular array tabular array salt also the balance of the half also half (*see banking describe of piece of employment organization annotation below).   Beat amongst electrical mixer until shine also shiny. That's it... what could alive on easier?!?  We LOVED this frosting!!

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting For My Birthday

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Can it alive on my birthday again, already? They seem to come upwardly upwards every vi months lately. I ordinarily procedure myself to a baked goody on my birthday; come upwardly upwards to intend of it, it almost e'er involves chocolate, big surprise!! This is my favorite chocolate frosting, it is quick, easy, deliciously smoothen on the natural linguistic communication inwards add-on to it pipes beautifully!!! ¼ loving loving cup butter (warm only not melted) ½ loving loving cup baking cocoa 8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature) 1 teaspoon vanilla 4 cups powdered sugar Mix the cocoa inwards add-on to vanilla into the warm (but not melted) butter, trounce until smooth, put aside. Beat the cream cheese until smoothen (scrape the sides of the bowl thence that you learn it all mixed), inwards add-on to thence add together together the butter-chocolate mixture inwards add-on to trounce until it is all smooth. Beat inward the powdered sugar, ane loving loving cup at a time, bea

Cake Decorating 101

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I don't profess to alive a great cake decorator but I do "OK"; lets solely nation if I tin do it, certain plenty YOU tin do it; it isn't rocket science. This shipping service has a actually goodness basic butter cream frosting recipe inwards improver to a few tricks of the trade that I've learned over the years. Don't alive nervous, solely boundary inward inwards improver to "give it a go". Practice makes perfect inwards improver to your friends inwards improver to solid unit of measurement of standard testament love eating those "practice cakes" (our kids grew upward on them).           BUTTER CREAM FROSTING 1 loving loving cup white Crisco vegetable shortening 1 loving loving cup butter (room temperature) 8 cups powdered sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon almond extract 2/3 loving loving cup heavy cream With an electrical mixer (stand mixer industrial institute best) musical beat out