21 Sep 2008

Buttercream Icing

This Buttercream Icing is good for icing and decorate a cake , you can use it as a filling, to pipe figurines or roses, and for borders too.

You will need:

1 cups butter (2 bars)
2 cups shortening (Crisco is a very good one)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 tsp butter flavor
2 pound sugar [...]

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21 Sep 2008

Chocolate Icing

This icing it will have a consistency like the fudge, it will be soft and cream.

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar
2 oz chocolate
2 tbs White Corn Syrup
3/4 cup milk
2 tbs  (1/2 oz) butter
1 tbs vanilla

Procedure:

Combine sugar, chocolate, corn syrup and milk. Put them  in a moderate heat, until the sugar dissolved. Beaten constantly.
Stop beaten and let it cook [...]

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15 Sep 2008

Sponge Chocolate Icing

You can use this Sponge Chocolate Icing  to cover a cake, or used as filling. This is the special icing to use with the Sponge Chocolate Cake, in the recipe we use this on both, as a filling and as icing to cover the cake.

Ingredients:

6 squares (6 oz) unsweetened chocolate
1/4  pound butter ( 1 bar)
2  [...]

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