@37pearl37 - Thanks for the suggestion. Next go around I'll use your suggestion. However, when I created it and made it for a coconut cake, I didn't notice the greasy taste at all. In fact, this was one of the best cakes I have ever made.
@TheBally99 - I guess you can as long as it has the same consistency as Crisco. All you need to really worry about when doing this icing is the room temperature. For this particular project, I put coconut over the icing so that helped fortify it to the cake. If it's too warm, the icing may curdle. If you add more powdered sugar to the icing, it will stiffen more.
Needs more butter, less crisco. Following that recipe the icing leaves a greacy feel in the mouth. Use same quantity crisco vs butter
37pearl37 4 months ago
@37pearl37 - Thanks for the suggestion. Next go around I'll use your suggestion. However, when I created it and made it for a coconut cake, I didn't notice the greasy taste at all. In fact, this was one of the best cakes I have ever made.
drgrbg3 4 months ago
can we use any kind of shortening?
TheBally99 6 months ago
@TheBally99 - Hum? I never thought about that. I used [white] Crisco because I wanted insure the white coloring.
drgrbg3 6 months ago
@TheBally99 - I guess you can as long as it has the same consistency as Crisco. All you need to really worry about when doing this icing is the room temperature. For this particular project, I put coconut over the icing so that helped fortify it to the cake. If it's too warm, the icing may curdle. If you add more powdered sugar to the icing, it will stiffen more.
drgrbg3 3 months ago
@TheBally99 - I used Crisco. If you know of another shortening that will perform like Crisco and is cheaper in price, by all means use it.
drgrbg3 2 months ago