Frosting recipe for cakes with fruit?

I'm making my father-in-law a cake with fruit and nuts as a topping, I want a creamy white frosting that will compliment the fruit. I'm looking for something subtle, not knock- you -out sweet.





My regularbuttercream is too thick and sweet.





Any ideas? Perhaps a whipped recipe?





Thanks, any help is greaty appreciated!





ShandiFrosting recipe for cakes with fruit?
This is a kitchenaid recipe, so it works really well if you have a stand mixer, but I would assume a hand mixer would work as well. This is kind of like a marshmallow frosting, and it's light and delicious, and would be perfect for a cake with fruit.





Fluffy KitchenAid Frosting


1 ½ cups sugar


½ teaspoon cream of tartar


½ teaspoon salt


½ cup water


1-½ tablespoons light corn syrup


2 egg whites


1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla





Place sugar, cream of tartar, salt, and corn syrup in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is completely dissolved, forming syrup.





Place egg whites in mixer bowl. Attach bowl and wire whip to mixer. Turn to Speed 10 and whip about 45 seconds, or until whites begin to hold shape. Continuing on Speed 10, slowly pour hot syrup into egg whites in a fine stream and whip 1 to 1 ½ minutes. Add vanilla and whip about 5 minutes longer, or until frosting loses its gloss and stands in stiff peaks. Frost cake immediately.





VARIATIONS:


Fluffy peppermint Frosting: Omit vanilla and add 1 teaspoon peppermint extract and ¼ cup crushed peppermint candy. Proceed as directed above.Frosting recipe for cakes with fruit?
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Fresh whipped cream or a cream cheese frosting.





White Chocolate Cream Cheese Buttercream


20 min prep





9 ounces white chocolate, melted and cooled


12 ounces cream cheese, softened


3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened (170 gms)


1-2 teaspoon vanilla extract


1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice (optional)





Coarsely chop the chocolate and melt in a double boiler over 160 degree water.


Don't allow the water to touch the bottom of the bowl.


Stir the chocolate until smooth, 10 mins or so.


OR you can melt the choclate in the microwave, stirring every 15 seconds, remove before fully melted and finish with residual heat.


Allow chocolate to cool.


In a mixing bowl beat the cream cheese with a flat beater until smooth and creamy, gradually beat in the cooled chocolate until smooth.


Beat in the butter, vanilla and optional lemon juice.
buttercream is your icing you will need a soaking srtup to soake the cake in too for what you need leave cholate out and add the juice fron the fruit that you are using





Chocolate Buttercream


1 cup unsalted butter or margarine, room temperature


3 oz semi-sweet chocolate squares, melted


1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract


4 cup sifted powdered sugar (approx. 1 pound)


3 to 4 table spoons Light corn syrup as needed





Optional: Add 1 teaspoon chocolate extract and/or ½ teaspoon almond extract.





In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the shortening and room butter together. Add cocolate and vanilla slowly add sugar, 1/2-1 cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. NOTE: When all the sugar is mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and continue beating at medium speed until light, fluffy and a pipeable consisty.





Keep buttercream icing covered in a sealed container until ready to use. Don’t refrigerate it if you are going to be icing your cake within a few hours. Refrigerate the icing if you are making the icing for future use. Rewhip on low before using you will need to bring the icing back to room temperature before icing your cake.





Refrigerate your icing in an airtight container. It can be stored for up to 2 weeks. Please rewhip on low before using icing often gets a spongy look to it and the “bubbles” need to be diminished. You’ll be glad you did when you get compliments on the look of your decorated cake!





YIELD: 3 cups - Makes 1 small batch enough for covering an 8-inch cake.





Dark Chocolate Icing: Add 3 or 4 more unsweetened chocolate squares (up to a total of 7, or a scant ¼ cup sifted cocoa powder). You will probably need to add a tablespoon of corn syrup to thin out the Chocolate Buttercream for ease of spreading use your own judgment for this.











Moistening syrup yeild 3 c


2 c sugar


2 c water


1 vanila bean split and scraped or 1 t vanila extract





put sugar and water in a sauce pan stir add bean %26amp; seads now if using. boile over medum-high heat stiring to desolve suger turn heat down to medum simmer for 1 minute make sure the sugar is all dissolved remove from heat cool to room temp if using extract wisk in now, if using bean remove beanand scrape any seads into the liquid refrigerate in airtight contaner for 1 month
Just use plain CoolWhip, or mix in orange, lime, or lemon zest.
Try this recipe, whipped cream goes well with fruits.





Whipped Cream Frosting Recipe





5 tablespoons flour


1 cup milk


1 cup granulated sugar


1 cup butter, softened


1 teaspoon vanilla extract





In a saucepan dissolve flour with milk. Cook until a thick paste forms (this will look like wallpaper paste). Remove from heat and cover with plastic wrap until completely cool.





In a large bowl, add sugar, butter and vanilla extract. Beat with mixer to blend. Add flour paste to this mix and whip until sugar is dissolved. This takes about 10 minutes.





Yields enough to frost a 9 x 13-inch or 2-layer cake.
This is a pretty standard glaze, not technically a frosting:





1 cup confectioner's sugar


2 tablespoons melted butter


4 tablespoons fresh lemon juice


(up to) 1 tablespoon water





Whisk together everything except the water. The mix should be a little thinner than peanut butter...if it's too thick, add just a little water until it's just right. Keep whisking constantly.





Instead of frosting the cake, this is something you'd drizzle on. It's sweet, but with a very tart aftertaste, and it works really well with fruit.
my mom likes crem cheese icing i think with fruits