icing recipe help?

Question

I need a light fluffy not too sweet icing recipe that wont overpower my chocolate cake

Answer 1

Fill it with marshmallow creme and dust it with unsweetened cocoa powder. This can be stored at room temp.Prepare a box of instant chocolate jello pudding(or equivalent) with one-haf the amount of milk than add one and a half cups of cool whip or coolwhip french vanilla.Refridgerate.

Answer 2

BUTTER MALLOW FROSTING
2/3 cup Milk
1/2 cup Marshmallows; (30 large)
1/2 cup Butter or margarine; softened
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Combine the milk and marshmallows in a saucepan. Cook and stir over LOW heat until marshmallows dissolve. Cool to room temperature; stir to blend. Cream the butter or margarine until light and fluffy. Gradually add cooled marshmallow mixture, beating well. Beat in the vanilla. Frost the top of 13 x 9-inch cake or the top of 9-inch square cake.
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NOT-SO-SWEET CREAM CHEESE ICING
BEAT TOGETHER:

8 oz Cream cheese; softened
1 teas Vanilla Extract
1/2 cup Butter or margarine
1 1/3 cup Confectioners' sugar
Add all ingredients into mixer bowl; beat and frost cake. Add small amount of water or milk to thin if necessary.

Answer 3

1 cup of solid shortening (Crisco)

1 cup of solid butter or margarine

1 box of confectioner's sugar

2 tsp of clear vanilla

2 tsp of almond extract

1/2 tsp of salt

1/3 cup of water or milk

Mix all items- being mindful of scraping down the sides and the bottom of the bowl.

Mix to a dull satin-like finish is achieved.

Add food color if you like- blend until there are no streaks.

Ice cake!

**Add 3/4 cup of Baker's Cocoa or 3-4 squares of semi-sweet chocolate (melted) for Chocolate Icing.

*** For darker chocolate icing add 5 more squares of chocolate.

**** For chocolate mocha icing - substitute fresh coffee for the milk in recipe.

***** For a different flavor,add flavored coffee as a substitute for the coffee in recipe.

Answer 4

The very best is, a container of cool whip, a small box of Jello pudding, any flavor you want, mix it till all the pudding is incorporated with the cool whip and spread on the cake. It's so easy and a very light frosting. I've used it many times and people always ask what kind of frosting did I use. They all raved about it.

Answer 5

Angel Icing

1 egg white
1 cup sugar
1 T light corn syrup
¼ cup water
1 t vanilla

Beat egg white in small bowl until stiff. Boil sugar, water and corn syrup to hard ball stage or until it forms a thread when poured from spoon. Pour syrup slowly over egg white while beating. Continue beating until mixture peaks. Add vanilla and spread on cool cake.

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Soft Chocolate Butter Icing

Melt 2 oz. sweetened choc., 1 oz. unsweetened chocolate with 1½ tablespoon strong coffee. Beat in 6 T unsalted butter

Answer 6

Go to foodnetwork.com and look up French Butter Cream. Not to sweet and very light in texture, but very delicious. I wish I had mine from school but I don't know where my books are at the moment. Otherwise I would give yo mine. The difficulty level is moderate in making this icing, so good luck.

Answer 7

This is the easiest and the quickest!!!!buy whipping cream..it comes in a carton like milk but reads whipping cream. then beat it until it looks like icing..add sugar to your taste while whipping it (use an electric hand blender thingy) add chocolate powder if you want to make a chocolte icing...but the original is good too

Answer 8

Try a real whipped cream frosting with vanilla extract, and adding some cream cheese and sugar---to taste. Powdered sugar tastes best. Cream cheese actually tastes pretty good with chocolate cake.

Answer 9

Use a traditional buttercream recipe, but substitute crisco for the butter (decorator icing) Use a nice vanilla.

Answer 10

right well i made my mom a chocolate cake last week and i made this orange butter icing which beautifully complemented the chocolate... heres the recipe:

Orange Butter Icing

-1/3 cup soft butter
-3 cups sifted confectioners sugar
-4 tbsp orange juice with pulp
-1/2 tbsp grated orange rind

blend the butter and sugar together and add orange juice. stir well and add orange rind.

hope it works!!!