Frosting Recipes

What a refreshing end to a meal!  We came across Born to Entertain’s recipe for Margarita Cupcakes with Lime Frosting and they look gorgeous.  We also love the pale green food coloring that supports the lime frosting flavor.

Lime Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients:
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/8 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. lime juice
green food coloring (optional)

Directions:
Add all ingredients to a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and mix on low until combined. Turn the speed to medium-high until the icing is light and fluffy. Use water to thin the frosting if necessary (I used about 2 tbsp). Add the icing to a pastry bag or use a spatula/knife to frost the cupcakes.

Be sure to check out the cupcake recipe after the jump that features a touch of Grand Marnier and lime zest.  Lovely!

Margarita Cupcakes « Born to Entertain.

Note: If you’d like a vegan version of margarita frosting, check out the Mucho Margarita Cupcakes in Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.  We made these awhile back and loved ‘em.

This very informative video takes you through the steps of frosting the top and sides of a round cake with buttercream frosting. It’s great to see the way the turntable is set up and how she uses each of the cake frosting tools.

Anyone who has ever made or purchased a cake, or even celebrated a holiday with a cake, will get a laugh out of this article and its subject, Cake Wrecks.  You can only imagine the cake frosting mishaps and miscommunications that have given rise to these hilarious cakes.

Misspellings and pro baking train wrecks are the focus of  Cake Wrecks, a blog and new book.

“Fortunately for Ms. Yates, an enormous number of those problems go unnoticed. She said she receives 50 to 60 Cake Wrecks submissions a day via e-mail, and usually posts between one and five photos each weekday morning. She posts only professionally made cakes (“It’s too easy and mean to go after your Aunt Sally’s cake wreck,” she said) and nothing excessively gory or obscene.

Much of the joy in following Cake Wrecks comes from Ms. Yates’s wry assessment of every plopped-out flower and bug-eyed snowman. She is particularly savage about punctuation mishaps, like when a baker omitted an exclamation point after the inscription, “Way To Go Bob.” Ms. Yates wrote, “Just try to read this cake without sounding sarcastic. Yeah. Exactly.” Beneath a Father’s Day cake that starkly announced “1 Dad,” the caption read, “Of all the Dads out there, you are one of them.”

Cakes Gone Wrong – Buttercream-Frosted Disasters – NYTimes.com.

Craftcake shared this fabulous white chocolate mint frosting recipe, that has a delicate pale green color that beautifully accentuates deep chocolate cake.  Enjoy!

White Chocolate Mint Buttercream Frosting

yield 2 3/4 cups

Ingredients

• 2 sticks (1/2 pound) unsalted butter, softened
• 12 ounces white chocolate
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract (do not use mint)

Chocolate Cupcakes + White Chocolate Mint Frosting : craftcake.

This effective cake frosting technique at Cakecentral involves paper towels and a homemade tool made from a plastic soda bottle.  Sounds unlikely, but it yields great results.   You end up with a wonderfully smooth finish with buttercream frosting, that is primed for any decorations you like.

Be sure to check out their homemade cake dummy, a durable form made of polystyrene house insulation.

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