Ever since I was a kid I could never get my frosting to be quite right. It was always clumpy, or liquid, heck it was even crunchy one time! Sure, you could excuse my poor frosting skills by saying I was seven. But to me, I was just another baker. While everyone in the YouTube videos I watched could effortlessly make a smooth buttercream, I couldn't.
That was until I came across cream cheese frosting. It was great! With its creamy texture, and subtle tartness, it tasted exactly like a delicious cheesecake. However my cream cheese frosting was not always ending up as smooth as I would like.
Two major tips that I wished I had learned earlier is to let the cream cheese and butter come to room temperature before whipping them, and to whip up the cream cheese and butter a bit separately before combining them. If the butter and cream cheese have different temperatures, they may not mix properly, and you could end up with a buttercream with weird clumps of cream cheese in it.
Cream cheese frosting has a distinct taste and texture, so I wanted another frosting recipe that was fluffier and didn't have a cheesecake like flavor. Whipped cream frosting, while simple, really fit my criteria. I feel like when most people think of whipped cream frosting, they think of the delicate foam that comes out of spray bottles. But homemade whipped cream is far thicker and can hold interesting piped designs. If you plan on frosting your cake over a day ahead of time, I suggest making a stabilized whipped cream frosting. Another amazing aspect of whipped cream frosting, is that you can boil the cream in tea leaves or dried flowers, to give the frosting a unique flavor of your choosing. I love to make earl grey frosting using this method. However, if you plan on boiling the cream prior to making the frosting, make sure it cools before you begin whipping it!
Please comment below if you have any unique frosting techniques that you think I should try! I am always open to trying new things :)
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