June 22, 2011

Because Cream Cheese Icing is a Terrible Thing to Waste…

Lately when I make icing I haven’t been using a recipe, I’ve just been estimating quantities of things that taste good, (like butter, cream cheese, icing sugar and vanilla bean paste) and mixing them together.  This means that I occasionally end up with too little icing and have to make more, or I have too much icing and refuse to throw away the extra.  I then I have to find a use for the extra icing besides simply piping it into my mouth.  Piping it into a strawberry and then popping that strawberry into my mouth is so much classier and more socially acceptable…

15 comments:

  1. Ohhh this post would have come in handy last night when I was spooning my left over chocolate lamington icing/sauce into my mouth straight from the bowl, with it running down my face and looking ever so not classy! Yuuumm idea!!

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  2. The picture is gorgeous!
    Here in France it's not usual to use cream cheese icing and I can't find a good recipe, could you share yours with me/us?

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  3. Thank you for sharing an absolutely perfect way to use leftover icing!!! I think I will make extra on purpose for this :)

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  4. Such a brilliant idea and why hasn't anyone else thought of it before?

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  5. Yeah!
    That is right fill the strawberries with it! Good idea!

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  6. Yeah!
    That is right fill the strawberries with it! Good idea!

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  8. wowwww! delicious idea!! gloria

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  9. Ha I do that too! I make a big batch of frosting and any leftovers, I find another use for. I've actually used leftover cream cheese frosting, added an egg, and made it the marbling in pumpkin cream cheese bundt cake and it was delicious.

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  10. what a fun way to eat a strawberry!

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