recipes needed for frosting,icing my own wedding cake

shelovestobuystuff

I cannot bake so am ordering cakes in 3 different flavours for my wedding and plan on icing them myself.I want to do an american style frosting or butter icing rather than the royal icing normally used.I need recipes to try out please.
My cakes will be plain victoria sponge,carrot cake and chocolate cake.They will all come without icing and what I want to do is have them end up looking like a 3 tier wedding cake but have the icing in flavours to suit the cakes.
I thought a plain frosting on the victoria sponge maybe with a touch of vanilla flavour,either the same on the carrot cake or maybe with a touch of orange or lemon to add a different flavour.The tricky one is the chocolate cake,I want this iced in white frosing too so I thought perhaps a white chocolate flavour icing as I really don't think anything else would go well.Has anyone had or made white chocolate icing before?
Tips and ideas for all these please.I can bake at all,always mess it up,but I am sure I can manage some icing:o

picklepick

hi
if you post over on the old style boards you'll get loads of good advice. theres some very knowledgable people over there when it comes to baking

hope that helps and good luck

angelax

ive been making cakes for a few years now, what i would do is fill each cake with what flavored butter cream you want (chocolate, vanilla, lemon) and then cover all the layers in Swiss meringue Butter cream frosting (the recipe I use is from the Martha Stewart website) it whips up nice and white. Remember to use dowels and boards in your cakes for the support system. Good Luck

MsChazzer

The only thing with not going with royal icing is that you'll probably have to do the icing on the day or the day before. Nigella's books seem to have lots of icing and frosting recipes in them.

talkhard

shelovestobuystuff wrote: »

I cannot bake so am ordering cakes in 3 different flavours for my wedding and plan on icing them myself.I want to do an american style frosting or butter icing rather than the royal icing normally used.I need recipes to try out please.
My cakes will be plain victoria sponge,carrot cake and chocolate cake.They will all come without icing and what I want to do is have them end up looking like a 3 tier wedding cake but have the icing in flavours to suit the cakes.

Wow. This is *exactly* what I want to do for my wedding! And the same flavour cakes. Its the only thing my hubby-to-be has chosen so I'm really trying to get it together for him.

Have you just ordered the cakes from a bakery? Or a special cake maker?

Can you please post a photo of when its done. I know its not until Nov but I'd really appreciate info on how it came together.

Thank you for posting

shelovestobuystuff

talkhard wrote: »

Wow. This is *exactly* what I want to do for my wedding! And the same flavour cakes. Its the only thing my hubby-to-be has chosen so I'm really trying to get it together for him.

Have you just ordered the cakes from a bakery? Or a special cake maker?

Can you please post a photo of when its done. I know its not until Nov but I'd really appreciate info on how it came together.

Thank you for posting

M&S food ordering service do the large undecorated carrot cake and plain sponge cakes but I will have to look for a chocolate cake roughly the same size or hope M&S start doing one of those too before my wedding.
I do have the number of a baker very close to the venue so if she can do all 3 affordably I will go with her.
I will let you know what I end up doing.