favorite cake icing type

[wargarden]

what is you favorite cake icing type?

[Suelle]

What's yours?

I'm too concerned about unnecessary calories to add frostings or icings to cakes very often, especially in the quantities they are often used on cupcakes. If anything looks as if it needs something it's usually a sparse drizzle of glacé icing.

Occasionally frostings and fillings are an integral part of a cake - then I like cream cheese frostings. I'm not fond of buttercream, although the Hummingbird Bakery version is lighter than the traditional one, especially if used sparingly.

[suffolk]

A ‘drizzle’ or a thin glacé icing is quite enough sweetness for us on the rare occasion that I make a cake with a topping.

[suffolk]

I can’t help wondering ... are we helping with research for some sort of project, do you ask the same questions on other forums and collate the responses, or is this just what we would call ‘idle curiosity’ ? ... not meaning anything pejorative by that by the way ... I’m a great one for ‘idle curiosity’ myself

[scullion]

[Seatallan]

Must admit I do have a weakness for buttercream....

[suffolk]

Must say I loathe cupcakes with a passion ... far too sweet

[Herbidacious]

Konditor and Cook make a variant on buttercream using cream cheese, which, with lemon, they use to top and fill my favourite cake that they make - their so-called lemon chiffon. I have replicated. It is delicious, although I wouldn't call it icing?

I do dislike royal icing (? the rock hard stuff) traditionally put on Christmas cake, and loath that nasty roll out stuff they sometimes use on bought cakes - especially the ones that are decorated to look like unicorns, footballs (!) etc. - the sort of thing Jane Asher may have started a fashion for.

[suffolk]

I quite like a thin layer of sweetened cream cheese on a carrot cake.

[earthmaiden]

I like old fashioned types of icing, the types which were on cakes in my earlier years. Usually a water icing (sometimes made with lemon juice) , butter icing to complement the flavour of the cake and royal icing depending on the cake. All spread onto the cake or cakes quite thinly. I am not keen on the trend for icing on cupcakes over an inch thick or fondant icing (which is good for rolling and modelling but usually tastes much too sweet and horrible).

Some cream cheese toppings are nice and marscapone based ones and of course there are things like chocolate ganache - which should not be too thick.

[Suelle]

If I'm going to be tempted by anything, it would be a fudgy chocolate frosting!

[scullion]

actually, you've reminded me - the coating on a 'bruce bogtrotter' cake is worth eating on it's own. (i don't count the drizzle on a lemon drizzle cake as icing - it's part of the cake).

ps. i seem to remember that we've had this conversation before.

[Suelle]

[earthmaiden]

.... but always with something new. I have now read recipes for Bruce Bogtrotter cake and would love to make one!

[scullion]

i put scans of the recipe on here a while back. it is an extremely good cake - it may even come ahead of lemon drizzle in my list of best cakes.

[earthmaiden]

Seems that everyone has their own version! The scanned one is from the Rohal Dhal book though so looks a good one. The one from delicious mag contains ground almonds which I don't much like in cake. Too claggy.

[suffolk]

[Seatallan]

[suffolk]

As long as you lot remember who I am, and I can remember who you lot are, we can all remind each other and we should be ok

[scullion]

[wargarden]

oops I forgot post my favorite icing!
I usually go with and old fashion boiled dark chocolate icing,boiled milk chocolate icing or white chocolate icing.
especially if i am making a thin layer cakes with 8-12 layers. Unlike butter cream boiled icing are harder and not fluffy.

chocolate glaze icings also work great on smaller cakes.

[wargarden]

my favorite icing i boiled chocolate

[wargarden]

boiled chocolate icing is my favorite since i find butter cream icing to sweet

[wargarden]

i am a big fan of boiled chocolate icing!

[wargarden]

here is link to my favorite type icing boil chocolate
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23392 ... ate-icing/

[karadekoolaid]

Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!