Hi all!
I am trying to make my wonderful boyfriend a birthday cake, and I have a question about cream cheese icing.
I made him a carrot cake, which uses cream cheese frosting. All the videos I’m watching about marbling icing unfortunately use buttercream.
From what I’m reading, cream cheese frosting is much softer, so would it be possible to marble this? Can I use the same technique as buttercream, or maybe refrigerate it so it’s a little less soft?
This picture is the look i’m trying to achieve!
Sorry for the silly question, I’m just trying not to botch this! (:
by BrightestMo
2 Comments
I’d try a cream cheese buttercream or something like that! Chelsweets has a great recipe, it’s sturdier for sure and has a bit of that cream cheese flavor
So I would recommend doing a traditional cream cheese frosting in between the cake layers and crumb coat. Then your marble layer could be with a swiss, Italian, or American buttercream.
I haven’t tried the marbling technique with cream cheese frosting for the reasons you mentioned earlier and also I find that coloring cream cheese frosting is kind of tricky as it loosens up the frosting.
If you do want to give it a go and experiment by using the acetate/parchment paper method— using a crusting cream cheese frosting recipe or adding extra powdered sugar until stiff, then doing the marbling technique onto the sheet. You’ll wrap it around the circumference of the cake. Chill the cake with the sheet untouched until firm and then once its all chilled unwrap the sheet and do a light smoothing. It may not come out exactly like your reference photo but a step in that direction.
🙏🏾 I pray for your success!