Frosting, icing, and cake decorating recipes and ideas. Make your next cake extra special by adding these finishing (and delicious) touches. Frosting is also great on cookies, cupcakes and brownies.
Preparing and applying the icing on the cake is a very important step while baking a cake. The icing on the cake has to serve many purposes, like giving a beautiful look to the cake along with improving the taste of the cake. Various icings of cake work in different manners. Some icings are sensitive to temperature and they melt when exposed to certain temperature. It is necessary that the icing recipe is chosen such that it holds the garnishing items in the right place. Moreover, you should choose the flavor of the icing recipe such that it will blend well with the taste of the base of the cake. Given below are some of the delicious cake decorating icing recipes for you.
Easy Icing Recipes for Cake
Chocolate Icing Recipe
Ingredients
Confectioner's Sugar - 2 lbs
Vanilla - 2 teaspoon
Milk - Half cup
Butter 1 cup or Margarine at room temperature
Cocoa powder - Half cup
Procedure: Chocolate icing is favorite of one and all. To prepare this cake icing recipe, first beat margarine or butter in a medium sized bowl, with the help of an electric mixer. Beat it until it turns soft, later add vanilla to it. Then, put the confectioner's sugar to the margarine or butter and blend the mixture. See that you add one cup of confectioner's sugar at a time. Put in cocoa powder to this mixture and blend it well. After blending the mixture, add milk and beat the mixture to form creamier texture for at least 2 minutes. You can thicken the frosting by adding cocoa powder or sugar. Read more on, chocolate cake recipes and chocolate icing recipes.
7 Minute Cake Icing Recipe
Ingredients
Sugar - 1 cup
Light corn syrup - 1 teaspoon
Cream of tartar - 1/4 teaspoon
Water - 1/4 cup
Egg whites - 2 large
Procedure: This easy icing recipe can be prepared within 7 minutes and hence, the name. First set up a double boiler and then beat the egg whites by placing the container 2 inches above the boiling water. Beat the egg whites to turn into foamy texture over the top. Then add the remaining ingredients into the bowl and beat the mixture for seven minutes. The temperature of the thermometer should reach almost 160 F, after the completion of seven minutes. Then take out the top of the boiler and continue beating the mixture for 4-5 minutes.
Boiled Icing Recipe
Ingredients
Water - 2/3 cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Egg whites - 2
Vanilla - 2 teaspoons
White corn syrup - 2 tablespoon
Procedure: The boiled icing recipes are known for their smooth texture and marshmallow like flavor. These are also called as Italian Meringue icing. To prepare this boiled icing recipe, first add water, sugar and corn syrup in a medium sized saucepan and stir the mixture to dissolve the sugar content. Place this mixture over heat, cover it and let it cook until the mixture boils. Meanwhile beat the egg whites at high speed with the help of an electric mixer. While beating the egg whites add about 6 tablespoon of the syrup mixture. Continue to cook the syrup mixture by placing cover on it. After sometime, remove the cover from the boiling mixture and place the candy thermometer and cook the mixture until the temperature reaches 240 F. Continue beating the egg whites and add the remaining syrup mixture to it. Then add vanilla and again beat the mixture for 4 minutes. Read more on, cake icing tips.
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