175564 Thu Sep 15 11:38:57 -0700 2005 3 14 Washington DC & Baltimore Area 0 944224 Does anyone who's had Cakelove's cakes know what kind of buttercream they use? I have a friend with a birthday coming up who loves their cakes, and I'd like to make her a similar one, but I haven't dealt enough with buttercream to be able to tell the various kinds apart. TIA! Thu Sep 15 11:38:57 -0700 2005 0 cake-lover 1 944225 I don't know about that bakery but I have made the buttercream frostings in Sylvia Birbbaum's CAKE BIBLE. She has several recipes including an "easy" one and it is excellent and exactly what buttercream should be not to sweet but with an creamy non grainy consistancy. Just follow the recipe they are pretty exact but not complicated. Thu Sep 15 11:56:25 -0700 2005 944224 0 adi 1 944226 I don't know about that bakery but I have made the buttercream frostings in Sylvia Birbbaum's CAKE BIBLE. She has several recipes including an "easy" one and it is excellent and exactly what buttercream should be not to sweet but with an creamy non grainy consistancy. Just follow the recipe they are pretty exact but not complicated. Thu Sep 15 11:57:08 -0700 2005 944224 0 adi 1 944240 My guess is that's it's an Italian meringue buttercream, because I think it's too white to have egg yolks, but that's just a guess (and it's been a couple of years since I've been there, so it certainly could have changed). It's got too smooth a mouthfeel and is too buttery to be an American buttercream (just powdered sugar, milk and butter), which are usually tooth-achingly sweet. Smokey Thu Sep 15 14:22:48 -0700 2005 944224 0 smokey