Frostings
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Forty delightful recipes for frostings, ganaches, and glazes, from the author of Pizzazzerie: Entertain in Style.
Whipped into a fluffy texture, drizzled for glazing, or creamed into a thick and sinful delight, frostings are an ideal finishing touch for cakes, s’mores, doughnuts and more! Within these pages of eye-candy, author Courtney Dial Whitmore shares forty recipes for traditional frosting favorites as well as exciting flavor combinations such as Salted Caramel, Chai Vanilla Bean, and Champagne Buttercream. Get out your mixer, piping bags and frosting tips and whip up your own flavored frostings to add that perfect topping or filling to your favorite desserts.
“Courtney’s inventive combination of cake, frosting, and a few yummy odds and ends is the most fresh and accessible take on the subject I’ve seen in a while.” —Duff Goldman, author of Super Good Baking For Kids and host of Ace of Cakes
“Her creative ideas are beautifully executed on every page.” —Elisa Strauss, author of Confetti Cakes
“Frostings has a permanent slot on my kitchen bookshelf.” —Joy Wilson, author of Joy The Baker Over Easy
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Frostings - Courtney Dial Whitmore
Introduction
There are two kinds of people in this world. You’re either a frosting person or a cake person. You can probably imagine which one I am. I was the little girl that ate the cake in my birthday cake slice first so that the delicious frosting was left last, and I could savor each bite of sugary sweetness. I’m still that little girl. It’s obvious what type of person this book is for. I like to think that frosting
people are the creative ones, the thrill-seekers, the ones that appreciate the art of a perfectly tied bow and perfectly decorated party, the ones that love the icing on the cake!
This book is for you! Dig in . . .
A little history lesson . . .
The first icings
were created in the mid-seventeenth century and consisted of boiled sugar, egg whites, and flavorings like rose water. It was a pourable icing that produced a thick, glossy covering over cakes. In the mid-nineteenth century, frostings as we know them were developed. The Cassell’s New Universal Cookery Book (London, 1894) contained the first mention of cake made with flour and sugar rather than yeast. Shortly after that, buttercream recipes began replacing boiled sugar frostings.
Most American palettes prefer a buttercream frosting similar to what they grew up enjoying on birthday cakes. It’s an easy frosting to decorate and cover cakes, cupcakes, and other treats. This book contains my favorite buttercream recipes as well as recipes for other types of frostings or icings
such as glazes, ganaches, and boiled sugar frostings.
My hope is that you will discover your new favorite frosting but also enjoy experimenting with new flavor combinations. Frostings are similar to ice cream; you can flavor them and add mix-ins to enhance flavor and color. Many of these frosting flavor varieties were inspired by favorite ice cream flavors. I encourage you to mix and match your favorite flavors, colors, and candies to create your perfect frosting. As for mine? Well you can find it