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What's your favorite cake & icing?
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Bob Terwilliger
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> 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?
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> 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.
The Bible for this kind of thing is named _The Cake Bible_. It's by Rose
Levy Beranbaum. Buy it. Read it. Look at the illustrations and be wowed
and/or inspired.
Bob
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