Giggles wrote:
Hi all,

I'm taking my first Wilton cake decorating course and I'm having fun
learning new things. For the course we have to make this buttercream which
is mostly made up of vegetable shortening & icing sugar it's great for
piping flowers & doing th boarders & of course frosting the cake. But I
don't like the idea of all that shortening. Is there another icing that is
good for this? What's the name so I can find a recipe?

Also for the course I've been using boxed cake mixes for the cakes, but I
find that the cakes are to soft and crumbly when I have to slice them in
half to make layers for the filling. What are some tasty cake that are a
little more dence and not as crumbly.

Thanks in advance,
Giggles


This site has several icing recipes.

http://dessert.allrecipes.com/directory/368.asp

As far as slicing cakes made from a boxed cake mix is concerned, first
make sure the cake is completely cool, it may help if the cake is
actually chilled. Second, use a serrated knife and make sure the blade
of the knife you're using is at least as long as the diameter of the
cake.