Can a wedding fruit cake be iced with Buttercream?

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Permalink Reply by suziq auzzi on October 3, 2011 at 8:11pm

Fruitcake is never iced with buttercream.

If the bride wants buttercream on fruitcake, put in her contract, point it out to her and have her initial it clearly. Emphasize that the choice is her responsibility..

You could also say that seeing that it is such an unusual choice and no-one has ever chosen it, how thick does she want the icing .. Make a point , and let it go at that ..

Fruitcake is rich and the icing [Royal and sugarpaste] are formulated no the clash with the cake. The blandness of both emphasizes the sweet sumptuousness of fruitcake.

Make sure that her choice is very clearly stated in the contract ..

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Permalink Reply by aisha on October 4, 2011 at 6:28am

Thank you Suziq, i'll def do that.

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Permalink Reply by Teneisha Williams on October 4, 2011 at 11:34am

I have covered fruit cake in buttercream...no bleeding of the wines etc. I have a pic in my album a white square cake...rich Jamaican fruit cake loaded with wine...and no issues....before fondant that's what we used to cover cakes in Jamaica...no issues...

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Permalink Reply by aisha on October 4, 2011 at 12:38pm

hello Teneisha,

thank you for getting back to me. oh thats very interesting. wow. out of a million people ive asked your the first, well glad you saw my post. would you kindly share how u did your cake? did you cover it with marzipan and then put buttercream or just buttercream ontop of te cake?

Teneisha Williams said:

I have covered fruit cake in buttercream...no bleeding of the wines etc. I have a pic in my album a white square cake...rich Jamaican fruit cake loaded with wine...and no issues....before fondant that's what we used to cover cakes in Jamaica...no issues...

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Permalink Reply by Teneisha Williams on October 4, 2011 at 12:58pm

no marzipan...i just used a nice stiff consistency...did you see the pic? I covered it just as I would a vanilla cake :)

 

 

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Permalink Reply by aisha on October 4, 2011 at 3:49pm

yeah just seen it, lovely. thank you so much for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Teneisha Williams on October 5, 2011 at 9:44am

you are welcome Aisha!

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