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Mock cream or buttercream is a simple buttercream made by creaming together butter and powdered sugar to the desired consistency and lightness. Some or all of the butter can be replaced with margarine, or shortening. [1] [2] A small amount of milk or cream is added to adjust the texture. Usually twice as much sugar as butter by weight is used.
Fondant icing, also commonly just called fondant (/ ˈ f ɒ n d ən t /, French: ⓘ; French for 'melting'), is an icing used to decorate or sculpt cakes and pastries. It is made from sugar, water, gelatin, vegetable oil or shortening, and glycerol. [1]
Foam cakes are cakes with very little (if any) fatty material such as butter, oil or shortening. They are leavened primarily by the air that is beaten into the egg whites that they contain. [1] They differ from butter cakes, which contain shortening, and baking powder or baking soda for leavening purposes. Foam cakes are typically airy, light ...
Make a simple cake batter using self-rising flour, eggs, buttermilk, shortening, and sugar. Make the filling with brown sugar and cinnamon. Start by pouring half the cake batter into a greased ...
Because the frosting is made with simple, on-hand ingredients like cream cheese, butter, vanilla and confectioners’ sugar, you’ll be able to pronounce everything in the recipe. Yuck ...
The first documented case of frosting occurred in 1655, and included sugar, eggs and rosewater. [7] The icing was applied to the cake then hardened in the oven. The earliest attestation of the verb to ice in this sense seems to date from around 1600, [8] and the noun icing from 1683. [9] Frosting was first attested in 1750. [10]
Softened butter is somewhere in between cold butter and melted butter. It’s the ideal temperature for creaming with sugar and it’ll whip up nicely for any type of frosting or batter.
Butter being creamed by electric beaters. Creaming, in this sense, is the technique of softening solid fat, like shortening or butter, into a smooth mass and then blending it with other ingredients. The technique is most often used in making buttercream, cake batter or cookie dough. The dry ingredients are mixed or beaten with the softened fat ...