The vanilla is also optional, but I just love the little vanilla bean specks through the frosting! There isn’t anything fancy here – I personally use Tate & Lyle at the moment because it’s my personal favourite, but any will do. Icing sugarįor the icing sugar… you just need icing sugar. The only thing though is you have to make sure it’s at room temperature to make the frosting, otherwise it could go lumpy. It will help the cream cheese frosting so so much. You want to use real butter, as once that is cold again, it’s much much firmer. The kind you want is wrapped in foil, and is absolutely solid when you get it out of the fridge. The butter tubs you get too spread on your toast on the morning, is not real butter. When it comes to the butter for cream cheese frosting, just like ANY OTHER FROSTING, you want to use actual real butter. It’s just something that could be good to do if you usually struggle with cream cheese frosting! Butter However, if you use a good quality cream cheese, you don’t HAVE to remove it. When you open up a tub, sometimes you can see a little water just sort of sitting there, but if you actually got your cream cheese, and squeezed it through a muslin cloth, a lot more can come out. but for example, other supermarket own cream cheeses have a lot more water just floating on the top. The cream cheeses in Aldi and Lidl are also good. I tend to stick to using Philadelphia full fat original cream cheese, because I find it works best. This isn’t helped by the added water content that you can sometimes see, and sometimes not see inside it. It’s not something that thickens up really. The reason cream cheese frosting can be so difficult, is when the cream cheese is beaten on it’s own, it gets runnier. I have had a few recipes on my blog now, with slightly different methods on how to make it, and yeah… they will all be replaced with this version now. So! When it comes to making cream cheese frosting in the UK… it’s difficult. Spreadable cream cheese is what we use for cheesecakes, so I can’t be sad about it… but my god I wished we had a block version. When you live in the UK? We only have spreadable. It has a lot less water in it, it’s a hell of a lot firmer, and it’s perfect for the job. When Americans then make cream cheese frosting, they use the block form. Cream cheese formsĬream cheese in America for example, comes in two forms. If you don’t understand how on earth it could be a problem… just believe it’s true. The reason I thought that cream cheese frosting needed its own post, is because it can be infuriatingly annoying to make, especially when you live in the UK. Occasionally, like with this one, some other bits will be added in… but those are the basics. Not even a cake itself! Don’t worry, I will be doing more classic ‘Jane’ style recipes, but things like cream cheese frosting need their own post.Ĭream cheese frosting, in case you weren’t aware, is a mixture of butter, sugar, and cream cheese. This is probably a first on my blog – a complete and utter how-to guide, on just a frosting. Please see my disclosure for more details!* An easy ‘how to’ guide on how to make homemade cream cheese frosting! Another in my series of back to basics!
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