Baking quick questions

meritaten

if its light and fluffy its buttercream if its flat and glazed its probably fondant or royal icing.
I make lemon fondant icing this way with about 3 - 4 ounces of icing sugar.
Sift your icing sugar into a bowl and add a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice and oneof water, and mix well. if the icing is too soft add more icing sugar - if its too stiff add water until its the right consistency.
for lemon buttercream icing
using room temperature butter mix the butter and the sugar together until light and fluffy and add either a couple of drops of lemon extract or about half a teaspoon of finely grated lemon rind and a teaspoon of warm water.
Quantities to use can vary but to every two ounces of butter I use about 4-5 ounces of icing sugar. (depends on how sweet/buttery you like your buttercream).

Jazzy_B

I make a lemon cream cheese topping with
50g butter
50g sifted icing sugar
150g soft cheese
I/2 tsp each of vanilla essence, lemon flavouring, and yellow colouring.
Mix butter and icing sugar, then beat in cheese. Add flavourings.
It's not too sweet and is delish


Whenever I use lemon buttercream I add 1 tsp boiling water as it makes piping so much easier to do

MaggieBaking

Buttercream
Mix together 115g of softened butter with 170g of icing sugar.
Use a wooden spoon to beat well together for a thick, rich butter cream.
With an electric whisk you can create a much lighter icing - in texture and in colour. This is what I use to pipe onto cupcakes, add a drop of food colouring to suit.

I'd be a bit worried about mixing in lemon juice in case it curdles, but it'd still taste nice. Lemon zest in it would look pretty too and help with the flavour.

LJM

hmm cupcakes i had a lemon cupcake just the other day, the hummingbird bakery have a fantastic cupcake book

buggalugs

Some cupcakes have a cream cheese topping, cream cheese mixed with icing sugar. in fact if hte link works have a look here HTH http://www.cupcake-creations.com/cupcake-icing-recipes.html
The lemon one is nice

twink

mix some angel delight powder into your buttercream mix gives it a lovely flavour

dora37

I mix a tsp of lemon curd in - also sometimes I cut out a small circle of sponge from the centre of the cake and spoon some lemon curd in there too.......mmm!:D

rachbc

i love alemon icing made of good lemon curd mixed with mascapone cheese -the acid in the curd thickens the cheese and you end up with a creamy, tart not too sweet icing

meritaten

MaggieBaking wrote: »

Buttercream
Mix together 115g of softened butter with 170g of icing sugar.
Use a wooden spoon to beat well together for a thick, rich butter cream.
With an electric whisk you can create a much lighter icing - in texture and in colour. This is what I use to pipe onto cupcakes, add a drop of food colouring to suit.

I'd be a bit worried about mixing in lemon juice in case it curdles, but it'd still taste nice. Lemon zest in it would look pretty too and help with the flavour.

Thats exactly why I use lemon zest or extract in buttercream!

freyasmum

rachbc wrote: »

i love alemon icing made of good lemon curd mixed with mascapone cheese -the acid in the curd thickens the cheese and you end up with a creamy, tart not too sweet icing

Ooh, that sounds yummy!

I make a basic cream cheese icing, and add in a few blobs of vanilla bean paste; you get the taste of vanilla (obviously ) and the pretty little flecks of vanilla in two.

If you're feeling the need to give yourself even more work, Italian meringue buttercream is amazing :drool:

If making regular glace icing, I use lemon juice, with zest grated over (usually when I've made little buns with lemon curd inside them), if buttercream then definitely extract/essence.