How To Make Orange Cream Cheese Frosting

We are David and David and you are at Outsider Tart in London, an American style bakery, and today we are going to show you some tips and tricks on frosting and finishing cakes. I am going to show you how to make orange cream cheese frosting. So, we have in front of us everything we are going to need for our orange cream cheese frosting.

We have an orange, we have a cup and half of castor sugar, we have cream cheese which is a pretty key ingredient, and we have our secondary fat which in this case is marzipan. We can also use butter. The ratio that you need with regards to your fat is two to one so you are going to need twice as much cream cheese that you are going to put in to the amount of other fat butter or marzipan that you are going to use.

First though, to get a really good strong orangey flavour, we are going to zest our orange in to our sugar. Now, you can start out, I like to just use one to have a nice background subtle flavor. You can also use as many as strong as the oranges scent that you want, you can use up to two or three oranges and zest them up to get a nice strong orangey flavor.

When zesting your oranges, you don't want to get all the way down to the pith which is the white bit you just want to really strip off the color which is what holds the skin all the essential oils so that's what you have, a nice wet zest we are going to put into our bowl and you are going to beat it into the sugar. And what this does now as we are beating it is you are going to smell it making extremely fragrant and the sugar is going to get dispersed off the frosting so once you have the flavor into the sugar this way and add to it first, I will have a much stronger consistent flavor that is needed for the frosting. If you just mix all your ingredients together and then add the zest, it is not going to really make a difference which is all going to sit there and you are going to get a mouthful of zest you are going to get a flavor, with this way, you are going to come across it quite nicely.

So, it is really pungent at the moment and really strong and if you have a look at the sugar which you have started, it will have a nice strong orangey including the chunks of orangey zest. So, now we can add the rest of our ingredients in a graceful manner, there it goes, get it all in and then our secondary fat which is our marzipan. Sometimes, you can also take the bowl off the next round, I'm being a bit lazy now so you can have all.

We will put our blade on and you are just going to cream this together. Cream cheese will be a bit snickety sometimes, your cream cheese will collapse on you, it will become very liquidy specially when you are having to mix it quite a bit specially if you are using butter. One of the things that really works nicely and doesn't alter the flavor of your frosting is to use a squeeze of lemon juice the citric acid in the lemon juice recovers the cream cheese and actually pulls your frosting together very nicely.

And since cream cheese already has the slightly acidic structure to it, you don't notice the lemon juice in your frosting. So, this has been well-creamed together now. We are going to add a little bit of vanilla, give it some flavour, and now we are going to scrape this down and make sure it is all mixed and mix well if you need to but be very careful of over mixing, it will separate and we would have to use the citric acid to pull it together.

So, it is a good fix if you find yourself in trouble but I deal you don't have to get there. That looks great. So, here you have a cream cheese frosting.

And that's how you make orange cream cheese frosting. .