Cup Cake HELP!!!!!

[*LovemyKids*]

Ok so i am a bit clueless about cupcakes. I know how to make them , but i really want to know how do i make that icing that when i use the piping bags it goes hard and it won't just run down the sides. And is there a trick to it??
I hope this make sense.
thanks nikki

[kas]

I cheat and when i pipe as i am usually only doing letters or outlines, so it is usually in brown or white and i add some melted chocolate (either milk, dark or white) to my normal icing mix which i don't make overly runny. I find it works a treat.

Otherwise you can but the cans of icing (just like whipped cream cans, my son went to a party that had used them, the only thing was they were very sweet) that look like those professional cup cakes and piping icing in bags with the attachment already on it in various colours from the supermarket.

I hope that helps in some small way, have you googled it?

[Patooties]

Hi Nikki

I made some cupcakes yesterday, and for the first time my icing set nicely when i piped it on. I just used a bag of homebrand icing mixture - about 500g and added about 4 tablespoons of butter and a little milk at a time. I put a bit of hot water in the sink and sat the bowl in there while i was mixing it. A friend of mine makes fabulous cakes and this is the way she does it too. She actually puts the icing in the fridge first too.
Hope you can get it to work

[Rouge]

I'm confused. What kind of icing do you mean? The hard icing? Or the butter icing? I normally make Swiss Meringue or Buttercream or whipped ganache. I'm not a fan of the sugar cookie icing (its like paste and dries hard) just tastes like eating straight sugar to me.

[ll80]

I used the recipe on this thread: Vanilla Cupcakes for my daughters birthday.
the magnolia icing was awesome, you could easily pipe it, should be just what you are looking for!

[Snacks]

Cai, what's your recipe for buttercream? That sounds yum.
Nikki, are you talking about the type of icing you get on the cup cakes at Micheles? It's thick like thick cream, not at all runny... I'd like to know how to make that type of icing too.
I can make ganache, but it's thicker than that light and fluffy icing.