Cake Adventures
Jun. 1st, 2009 01:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamcatchingsI have officially managed to make a buttercream frosting. I've done cakes from scratch before and even cream cheese frostings but this was my first ever attempt at buttercream. It turned out pretty well. Actually, it turned out pretty great. The frosted cake is setting up in the fridge right now and will stay there probably until I take it to work with me on Tuesday.
On another note, my buttercream adventure has made me realize how much I love my new icing spreader. Up until the St. Patrick's Day cake, I had been making due with my silicone spatula. It was working okay, but it wasn't the best thing. So I went to Target and bought a lovely icing spreader with a pretty blue handle. (I would have gotten a pastry knife at the same time but they only had one with bent wires. If it's going to have bent wires, I'm going to be the one to bend them damnit.) The St. Patrick's day cake had store frosting so, yeah, not a challenge. The buttercream made me appreciate my new kitchen tool.
You see when I moved out of my dad's house, there was the usual sort of kitchen implement divide. There were the things that were definitely mine (the bread machine, the stand mixer, my coffee maker), there were the things my dad begged me to take (the full set of mugs stolen from the cafeteria at my college) and the things that were definitely his (the Cutco set I got him as a present). I bring the Cutco up because I am in love with the spatula spreader in the set, which had been my go to tool for cake icing while living there. I would still loved to get my own but Cutco is crazy expensive. Someone send me a salesman I can try and make a deal with. Please.
Anyway my new icing spreader is pretty nifty. And so is my buttercream.
On another note, my buttercream adventure has made me realize how much I love my new icing spreader. Up until the St. Patrick's Day cake, I had been making due with my silicone spatula. It was working okay, but it wasn't the best thing. So I went to Target and bought a lovely icing spreader with a pretty blue handle. (I would have gotten a pastry knife at the same time but they only had one with bent wires. If it's going to have bent wires, I'm going to be the one to bend them damnit.) The St. Patrick's day cake had store frosting so, yeah, not a challenge. The buttercream made me appreciate my new kitchen tool.
You see when I moved out of my dad's house, there was the usual sort of kitchen implement divide. There were the things that were definitely mine (the bread machine, the stand mixer, my coffee maker), there were the things my dad begged me to take (the full set of mugs stolen from the cafeteria at my college) and the things that were definitely his (the Cutco set I got him as a present). I bring the Cutco up because I am in love with the spatula spreader in the set, which had been my go to tool for cake icing while living there. I would still loved to get my own but Cutco is crazy expensive. Someone send me a salesman I can try and make a deal with. Please.
Anyway my new icing spreader is pretty nifty. And so is my buttercream.
