Celebrate life's great occasions. Decorate desserts like a pro and know you can have your cake and decorate it, too. Kuhn Rikon's Pastry Decorating Set makes it easy to decorate cakes, cookies and desserts like a professional pastry chef. Impress friends and enjoy house of sweet, creative fun. Pastry gun, two decorating bottles, one frosting spatula and 14 tips for creating stars, rosettes, borders and more. Let's you create whatever you mind decorating mind can imagine.

Product Features and Benefits:

• Instant fun for the whole family with professional quality results
• Includes pastry gun, 2 decorating bottles, 1 frosting spatula, and 14 interchangeable tips (4 large, 10 small)
• This set makes it easy to decorate cakes, cookies, and desserts like a professional pastry chef
• Tips let you create ribbons, stars, flowers, lettering and more
• Large pastry gun can frost an entire cake without refilling
• Flexible spatula makes smooth frosting easy
• Squeezable bottles for colorful accents and lettering

 

Buttercream Icing

This buttercream icing recipe is a kid's favorite and great for covering the cake and piping all kinds of decorations.You can vary the consistency to your needs whether covering the cake, piping, and creating flowers. Add more milk to make the buttercream frosting thinner for fine lines or make it thicker with more confectioner's sugar for piping borders, scrolls, etc.

To create flowers that need to be stiffer, add vegetable shortening to this buttercream recipe. If you try to use the buttercream as is for flowers, such as roses, the petals will droop and the shape will distort.

* Note: If making thicker icing, a free standing mix master is best. (I've broken 2 hand held mixers making icing. The firm consistency strains the motor and burns it out).

Makes enough to frost an 8 - 9" cake and pipe borders

2 lbs. confectioner's sugar
2 tsps. vanilla
about 1/2 c. milk (depending on desired consistency)
1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter or margarine at room temp.
Optional: If making flowers, add 1 cup shortening/ul>

Place butter in mixer bowl. Mix on low until slightly softened. Add vanilla. Gradually add confectioner's sugar, 1 cup at a time. Blend on low, scraping the beater and bowl down in between.

Add milk slowly, until you reach the desired consistency. If you accidentally add too much milk and have no extra confectioner's sugar on hand,the buttercream frosting can only serve to frost the cake. It's better to take your time adding the milk to get the consistency right.

If piping decorations with this buttercream icing recipe, do not overbeat. Incorporating too many air bubbles will cause problems during the decorating process.