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Cream Cheese Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting, Take 2: Success!

March 28, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 86 Comments

Cream Cheese Swiss Meringue ButtercreamAlmost two years ago, I made a wedding cake for my good friend and frosted it with cream cheese Swiss meringue buttercream. The cake turned out great, but the frosting was another story. Turns out that cream cheese doesn’t work so well as a replacement for butter, which I realized after having made two giant batches of frosting, posting about it, and then having it go all weird and curdled when I actually tried to frost the cake with it. It was so unsuccessful that I wouldn’t recommend the recipe to anyone, but it is obviously a topic of interest to many because that post generates a lot of traffic for my blog….

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Recipes Tagged With: cake, cream cheese frositng without icing sugar, cream cheese frosting, cream cheese Swiss meringue frosting, food, recipe, tutorial

Fun with Frosting

March 15, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 14 Comments

Swirly Frosted CupcakesApparently making cupcakes only once in a month is not enough cupcakes. Obviously. Also, I saw this frosting technique done somewhere (I forget where) and was looking for any excuse to try it out.

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Filed Under: Cakes & Pies, Recipes Tagged With: baking, cupcakes, decorating cupcakes, swirled frosting, Swiss Meringue Buttercream, tutorial

Decorated Challah

January 30, 2013 By Korena in the Kitchen 18 Comments

decorated challahI always forget about Bread Baking Day, but this month it is being hosted by Jenni of the Gingered Whisk, so I made the effort to participate. The theme Jenni chose this month is bread with a decorated crust. I’ve been inspired by the gorgeous loaves of bread on this blog for a long time so this was the perfect opportunity to give it a try.

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Filed Under: Bread, Recipes Tagged With: baking, Bread Baking Day #56, challah, decorated bread, tutorial, yeast

Sourdough Danish Pastries, Part III

June 9, 2012 By Korena in the Kitchen 14 Comments

This is the last post in a series of three – click to read Part I and Part II.

Here’s what I did with the rest of the sourdough Danish pastry that I tucked away in the freezer: Chocolate Chip-Cream Cheese Spirals and Cinnamon-Sugar Scrolls. Both super easy and pretty darn tasty!

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Filed Under: Other Baked Goods & Sweets, Recipes Tagged With: baking, brunch, Danish scrolls, Danish spirals, laminated dough, palmiers, snacks, sourdough, sourdough Danish, tutorial

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