I Made A Frosting For My Mother's Cake

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Some few weeks ago, my mother celebrated her birthday. Since we are still in quarantine and home made or DIY stuff is the trend right now, I told my mother that I am going to bake her a cake. However, my mother was against the idea because it's tiresome. I then suggested why don't we buy muffins as the cake bread and that will only leave me doing the icing or frosting.

I am planning to bake an ube cake but some ingredients might not be available in the grocery so I just got the icing recipe for our cake.

Since I am only making little, I reduce all the icing ingredients into half.

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The ingredients are: cream cheese, sugar, heavy or whip cream, and vanilla extract. (No proportions because it won't matter, anyway.)

There was no available vanilla extract in the grocery and only all-purpose cream is available. Will my frosting be a success? Or do you already foresee another Straykat kitchen mishap? Take a look at the first photo. Lol!

I started beating the cream cheese using a hand mixer and gradually added the chilled all-purpose cream. Then I added sugar.

And here's where it goes "toooot!" After minutes of beating the frosting, the consistency is still not thick. It's almost liquid and of course, I know the reason behind it. It's not heavy cream! >.<

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All-purpose cream has a thinner consistency and a thick and creamy frosting can't be made. I tried searching for a solution on the internet and I found answers like, add more sugar, add more cream cheese, or add cornstarch. I already added everything, the frosting now even has a strong taste of cornstarch, losing the sweet taste of cream cheese. Eventually, I gave up after several more minutes of beating it.

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I still used it on the "cake" because it will be a waste if we don't consume it. By the way, the bread we got was a small banana cake. Lol!!! I can't do frosting designs so I just spread a generous amount of the watery frosting around the bread and chilled it on the refrigerator. After dinner, I took it out and got surprised to see that the watery frosting almost solidified. It's almost like the ones in doughnuts.

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Surprisingly, the frosting tastes good. There were lots of excess so we used them as spread for our breakfast. It complements well with slice bread. Haha!

Ah, so there goes straykat's first time quarantine recipes! From mayonnaise to spring roll wrappers to frosting! Guess what they all have in common?

Disasters.

Ehhhh...Why do I always expect myself to get it right the first time! At least I tried making them.. and most importantly, I ate them! Nothing's wasted so everything's good. Hahaha!

I wonder what food do I botch next? Hmmm...



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