Icing..... Disaster!!!

**babesimmo** · 05-12-2011 18:12

I tried to make the icing for the cupcakes. I realised it suddenly melted & soften. Much thought it's like whipped cream. Because a bit of milk that make "soft icing".

I wanted the hard & solid icing with butter on the cupcakes. It would set hard & firm in the fridge & leave it on bench that would have been set already. Eat & break the icing like the rocks or crystals as hard & crack.

Summer is here already so I don't want the icing melt or soft. I am going to make 2-3 other cakes on Thursday & weekends for my DS1's birthday party.

How to make the right recipe for coating & decorating the cake before it set hard, firm & solid? What do I do? Hope it is like soap if it set "hard icing" already.

Guest · 05-12-2011 18:16

We're the cupcakes cooled completely? Was it hot in your kitchen? Putting them in the fridge straight after icing would help. What sort of icing did you use? I did one today with butter, cream cheese and icing sugar.

**LoveyDovey** · 05-12-2011 18:28

To make hard icing, you need to use "Icing mixture".

To make soft icing, you use pure "Icing Sugar".

Hope that helps.

**Ulysses** · 05-12-2011 18:31

frosting is harder than icing. It uses more butter & less water or fluid. Google some frosting recipes.

**babesimmo** · 05-12-2011 18:54

I got the suggestion from the A & J Cake decorating supplies shop that I ordered the round cake tin and asked for the icing recipe. But the pure icing sugar I got last Friday

I think the lady got confused when I preferred is hard, solid & firm. She thought it was soft.

I made the pre-mix cupcakes from Coles yesterday. I placed it in fridge overnight then next morning I took it out and set them in the cake box. It set hard already but out of fridge it suddenly melted and soft a bit. Thought it would have been hard already like the soap.

One of my friends gave me the butterfly cake with hard icing. I ate it so hard and crack like the rock (not fondant or royal). I stored and placed from the fridge and the bench I noticed it didn't melt or soft. It was still hard in 3-4 days. I wonder how it work?

I hope I'd try to pipe the swirls if set hard, so it won't go melt or soft.