https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 03 May 2026 19:28:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-258895 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:49:26 +0000 Jonesy 258895@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay, I don't know what freaks me out more: that gruesome turkey and potato layer "cake" that was linked to, or the fact that Laura and Kari don't LIKE CAKE! Madness, I say!</p> <p>Those of you who are hatin' on buttercream: I'm guessing that you have never had good buttercream! A grocery store cake is usually an abomination, we can all agree on that. But homemade is another story completely. When I make it I whip lots of cream into it too (along with the butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla) so it is mildly sweet, fluffy, and delicious. Then there is chocolate buttercream, or chocolate mocha buttercream! Yumminess to infinity!</p> <p>Maya, and anyone else, you are welcome to my house for cake anytime! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-258764 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:28:37 +0000 Megan 258764@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Maya! After my holiday in NYC I dreamt of red velvet cake from Magnolia and white Chocolate peanut butter popcorn from Dale and Thomas...mmmmmm </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-258746 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:26:00 +0000 anne 258746@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team Cream cheese - though I don't mind buttercream.</p> <p>What none of you have mentioned, and what I make the most is lemon icing - just icing sugar and lemon juice. That is my favourite! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257955 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:34:54 +0000 Kari 257955@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, you and I can happily enjoy Maya's rejected pies together. Mmmm. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257950 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:30:56 +0000 Maya 257950@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Totally agree Mamark. Genuine, well prepared buttercream is splendiferous. I'm not talking about the canned trans fat stuff.</p> <p>Also, ladies, I don't get the comments about buttercream being too sweet! You can control the sweetness by controlling the sugar, just as you would with CC frosting. CC frosting can also be sickeningly sweet if you add too much sugar.</p> <p>Megan, I wish I could send you some Magnolia cupcakes. Alas, I don't think they'd make it through the journey. </p> <p>Laura, you are totally captain of Team Crazy! And you can have my pie *pushes plate away* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257935 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:10:38 +0000 mamark 257935@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh if you make real buttercream frosting in a saucepan with flour thickener and lots of real butter, it is the winner hands-down. Just not too many people do that. It's to die, literally (arteries/all that butter!) </p> <p>What many bakeries call buttercream is just Crisco whipped with sugar. ICK!</p> <p>I was so happy to see the comment above about Red Velvet Cake with real buttercream frosting, I had to log in to contribute! That is absolutely correct - just about every place ruins it with cream cheese frosting. The traditional cake is made with the labor-intensive buttercream I described above. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257904 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:35:09 +0000 AJ 257904@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Since I'm still enjoying the leftover pumpkin bars, I'll say team cream cheese. Overall, I'm usually not a frosting person. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257884 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:42:53 +0000 Auburn 257884@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cream cheese, not even close.<br /> Buttercream is WAY too sweet for me and I hate the way it leaves this sort of oily slick on the roof of my mouth. I almost always knock it off the cake or cupcake so that I can continue to enjoy the cake-y goodness without risking an oil spill in my mouth.<br /> I just made a batch of coconut cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting (butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla and almond extracts) and it was amazingly light and oh-so-delicious. I will NOT tell you how many times I stuck a spoon in the bowl to "taste test." </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257743 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:11:47 +0000 londonkiwi (now back in NZ) 257743@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I vote some alternative such as chocolate ganache or meringue icing, but if you are forcing me to vote then I'm team cream cheese - especially if it comes with a carrot cake! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257602 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:00:10 +0000 Laura 257602@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Call me Team Crazy then, and pass the cherry pie ... or lemon meringue ... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257582 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:24:36 +0000 Maya 257582@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura, you can be team crazy. How can anyone not like cake? The possibility didn't even occur to me. I think we had a team pie vs team cake challenge already though. I'm not a huge fan of pies myself. Not even apple pie (sorry, America). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257574 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:36:07 +0000 Laura 257574@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Don't like cake or frosting at all - can I be on Team Pie? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257562 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:49:31 +0000 Theresa 257562@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooooh I'm with you Maya - DEFINITELY Team Buttercream!!</p> <p>But, if Chocolate Ganache or similar is available I will always opt for it.... heck I'd even have choc on carrot cake LOL </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257500 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:22:25 +0000 Katiepea 257500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team buttercream on a typical vanilla/choc cake for me (which is the majority of cake I've been devouring of late). However, I have to say that I am absolutely a team cream cheese frosting whenever I have carrot cake! There is absolutely no other possible substitute in my opinion and I will refuse to eat the cake if it is butter-cream frosting (just call me princess!). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257498 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:15:43 +0000 Lisa 257498@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team cream cheese here! Buttercream is too sweet for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257493 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:05:56 +0000 Maya 257493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That. Is. Revolting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting/page/2#post-257480 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:21:18 +0000 MsMary 257480@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ewwww!! :0 </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257470 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:01:30 +0000 Debora 257470@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team Buttercream!</p> <p>In the spirit of Thanksgiving, though, I give you.....</p> <p><a href="http://www.chow.com/recipes/29029-thanksgiving-turkey-cake" rel="nofollow">http://www.chow.com/recipes/29.....urkey-cake</a></p> <p>...the Thanksgiving turkey cake!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257460 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:46:42 +0000 Megan 257460@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team Buttercream! I LOVE Red Velvet cake from Magnolia in NYC. I was so happy to discover one place that I could buy it here in Australia and they RUIN it with cream cheese frosting </p> <p>Although, there is one kind of cream cheese frosting that I make that is completely divine because it includes vanilla pod infused butter. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257457 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:43:47 +0000 Maya 257457@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kristine, the whole point of CC frosting is to NOT be light and airy :p It makes frosting extra decadent and rich. I'd say you're on team whipped. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257455 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:41:47 +0000 Kristine 257455@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cream cheese, but it has to be super light and airy with hardly any sugar. I don't like sugary frosting! I feel the same way about whipped cream, just whip up some cream, no sugar needed. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257452 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:39:31 +0000 Maya 257452@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sorry to be rude, Jonesy, but I'm inviting myself over for cake. Tomorrow around 7:00 perhaps? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257443 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:32:13 +0000 Jonesy 257443@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>All of you cream cheese frosting lovers need to cross enemy lines and try my homemade devil's food chocolate cake with buttercream frosting (always a very thin layer--I hate too much frosting!). I'll bet I could at least get you to bat for both teams :). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257437 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:27:36 +0000 taylor 257437@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cream cheese :)<br /> But, I am a scraper too if it is too thick. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257432 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:21:31 +0000 RandomThoughts (Andrea) 257432@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Team cream cheese, but not too much! I'm one of those folks who'd rather scrape off frosting than deal with overly sweet stuff. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257427 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:15:42 +0000 marianna 257427@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cream cheese! Yummm. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257408 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:48:48 +0000 Mellllls 257408@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>definately buttercream. but in cream cheese's defense, i managed to make a good one this weekend for the pumpkin cake. i was surprised at how good it was. but i still loooove buttercream (particularly my recipe) soo much more. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257405 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:45:07 +0000 Dee 257405@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cream cheese!! I always get carrot cakes for my birthday just for the cream cheese frosting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257403 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:43:56 +0000 Marley 257403@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Buttercream on EVERYthing except carrot or spice cake - then I'm a Creamcheese frosting girl! Yum! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ot-team-buttercream-or-team-cream-cheese-frosting#post-257389 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:18:06 +0000 Angie 257389@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Easiest poll ever. Team Cream Cheese Frosting - do not like Butter Cream frosting at all. Onward Philadelphia cheese soldiers - we are marching to war. </p>