to recommend trying the swiss or Italian buttercream (I prefer italian, personally), but it may be worth a try. Definitely, do NOT add vegetable shortening, no matter what you do. The mouthfeel is disgusting (it’s that...

I’m looking for a recipe that uses Italian meringue, but NOT buttercream. Are there any other uses for it?

baked up almost perfectly level even though I couldn’t find any Magi-strips. So far so good. Fri. morning a started the buttercream. As instructed, I had bought a copy of the Cake Bible. Even though I used the recipe from...

A friend recently returned from Italy and brought me a jar of what I think is chestnut spread— it looks like a thick jam, almost a chestnut butter, but the label is in Italian. Any suggestions on what to do with it?...

i think this post belongs here, but feel free to re-direct me if need be. i am an avid baker (and baked good eater), but Italian cream cake is something new to me. this weekend, after consuming yet another one of my baking...

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If you search the home-cooking board for Italian buttercream or meringue-type buttercream, you will find what you are looking for.

hello i was curious as to whether it matters or not how fast you bring sugar up to a certain temperature. my application is italian meringue buttercream. one recipe says to bring it to 245 and another tells me to bring to boil and...

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I grew up in Spring Valley and we always had Pakula cakes for our birthdays. Did you guys use italian buttercream for the frosting (it was yellow cake and strawberry and cream filling.. incredible)? The reason I ask is because my...

Nick Malgiei’s nut cake in How to Bake is a good, straightforward cake that I use when I want a walnut/maple cake. I make an Italian buttercream frosting using maple syrup. But my favorite nut cake is the bourbon/pecan cake...

Just a little tid-bit. Crisco will keep a frosting softer, like in American style buttercreams, where as butter will set up harder, as in Swiss and Italian style buttercreams. The best way to enjoy a cake is room temp, it allows...

There is only one way to order a Hansen’s cake. Half a sheet with italian marbel cake (chocolate and vanilla – so everyone is happy) - the filling is choclate buttercream with choclate chips – order it extra...

or Italian buttercream (whip meringue, pour in hot sugar syrup, add lots of butter), or from a “cold” buttercream where you beat powdered sugar into butter? I don’t have any suggestions for making your...

Swiss (or is Italian?) buttercream so no discernible sugar granules there. Other people think that it has a tendency to get a wee bit too “oily”, though. The BEST cupcakes I’ve had in the city are from The...