My Coffee and Cream and White Russian Cake Icing.....

[rdevous]

 
Coffee and Cream Icing Recipe

1 pound box of Domino's Confectioner Sugar (sifted...You want NO sugar lumps in your icing!!)
1 softened stick of unsalted butter
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
1 miniature bottle of Starbucks Coffee Liqueur (Only use Starbucks!  It tastes the BEST of all coffee liqueurs!!!!  Trust me!)  Get it at your local liquor store.
1 tablespoon of room temperature strong coffee
 
Sift the powered sugar into your mixing bowl.  Cut your softened butter into cubes into the bowl so it lands in various spots to spread it around.  Use the whisk attachment on your mixer and whisk this for 20-30 seconds on the lowest speed you are comfortable using so as NOT to get or give a sugar facial while creaming these ingredients.  Add the whole MINIATURE bottle of Starbucks Coffee Liqueur and tablespoon of cool strong coffee so it is disbursed evenly.  Continue to whisk this until you feel the icing is the right consistency.  I stop twice to scrape the sides and bottom of my Kitchenaid bowl.  The cake you are icing has to be cool to the touch.  If the cake is warm...you WILL find a cake with a pool of icing circling it!  Don't ask......trust me on this one too!!  This amount will cover a Nordicware Bundt Pan size cake. After icing your cake...let it sit uncovered for at least an hour to allow the icing to set before you cover it in that cake taker for the potluck supper your hurrying to.  If you have a little icing left...put it in a small covered plastic bowl in the fridge.........you WILL be making secret trips with a teaspoon to the fridge!!!


White Russian Icing

Follow the Coffee and Cream Icing recipe above except swap a tablespoon of vodka for the tablespoon of cool strong coffee.  Don't bother reaching for the Grey Goose.....that bottle of rot gut store brand vodka your brother/sister-in-law brought to your last party will work.
 
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I use Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe Butter Recipe cake mix for all my yellow cakes.  This mix is a great base for several flavors of cakes I do.  If the back of the box calls for one stick of softened unsalted butter, 3 large eggs and 2/3 cups of water...you found the right one!  The recipe I use with EITHER of the above icings is:  Spray your cake pan with one of those Spray Oil/Flour mixture.  My store sells Baker's Joy.  (It is)  Follow the oven temp and times for the type of cake pan you are using on the back of the cake mix box.  NOW GATHER AROUND KIDDIES!!!...here's where you make it your recipe...I add one level coffee measuring spoon of very fine ground coffee grinds or espresso powder.  The size grind you use in your percolator is too gritty and you will have guest picking it out of their teeth.  I use Cafe Bustelo that I get at BJ's Wholesale Club.  Substitute 2/3 cup of cold strong coffee for the 2/3 cup of water.  Follow the mixing instruction on the box......unless you're me (by now you saw that coming  ;D )  Use the paddle attachment. After the mixture is past the facial danger stage I kick the speed up one click at a time to the max and let it put some air in the batter for 2-3 minutes.  The cake comes out light and airy.  I find that 37 minutes in MY oven is perfect for that 60's HEAVY Bundt pan hand-me-down!  The toothpick comes out clean every time.  Cool in the pan for 20 minutes and flip it onto your plate or cake taker bottom.  Let this cool until you feel NO heat in the cake when you touch it before icing it............WALK away for at least an hour after icing it to let it set.

You will be making this over and over for parties per request!!!


Ray
 

[Caribou]

Those recipes sound delish!
Thanks for sharing because I love anything coffee :)
Carolyn

[mikecorn.1]

Coffee flavored (almost) anything is good. Thanks for the recipe.  :D

[rdevous]

 
Carolyn........Please accept my apology in advance for causing the fight between you and your daughter over the mixing bowl...the beaters...the rubber spatula...the knife used to spread the icing onto the cake...etc.  Hey!!!......I just thought of how to keep it all for yourself.....tell her she's not 21!!!  Don't tell her that she could eat the entire bowl of icing and the only buzz she would get is from ALL that sugar!!!!!!  (Note to all parents wondering if they should let their children eat this icing...check the pure vanilla extract...it's actually vanilla flavored alcohol.)

Mike..........I'm ex-Navy...............STRONG Coffee is one of those things you can never have too much of!!!

OOPS!!!  While typing this I realized I left out the one teaspoon of pure vanilla extract in the recipe.  Hope I can do an edit.

Ray



Me again...edit done!

[Caribou]

 :D :D :D
My daughter likes coffee flavor, too!
I usually win the "who gets to lick the bowl" contest on baked goods by telling her the raw eggs may give her salmonella! :D

Carolyn

[FLBentRider]

I usually win the "who gets to like the bowl" contest on baked goods by telling her the raw eggs may give her salmonella! :D

We use that one too!

[rdevous]

:D :D :D

I usually win the "who gets to like the bowl" contest on baked goods by telling her the raw eggs may give her salmonella! :D

Carolyn

SHHHH!! Then lets not tell her there's no eggs in the icing!!!  She'll say "Ok, you get the cake batter bowl and I get the icing bowl!!!"  ;D


Ray

[Caneyscud]

Man, that looks like one good recipe.  I think that, licking the icing bowl and eating a lot of honey (I used to raise a few bees) gave me the diabetes.  My problem was that I usually did not wait for the icing to be put on the cake before cleaning up the bowl if you know what I mean!  I loved to eat icing spooned over my ice cream - or was it ice cream over my icing - really!!!

[Caneyscud]

STRONG Coffee is one of those things you can never have too much of!!!

Is there any other kind?

[seemore]

Well, I love cake and I love White Russians, so this is a must try for me.
Now I really do want to fix a White Russian;  sadly, no coffee liquer nor cream in the house.  :(:(:(
Plenty of Vodka, though.  :):):):):)

[Hopefull Romantic]

Hi there rdevous,

my 12 years old daughter read your recipe and decided this is what she wants for desert this weekend. A chocolate fudge cake with your icing on top. Thanks a lot.

HR

[rdevous]

Hi there rdevous,

my 12 years old daughter read your recipe and decided this is what she wants for desert this weekend. A chocolate fudge cake with your icing on top. Thanks a lot.

HR

Insert evil parental laugh here.......here.......here.......and here!!!  If you have any questions........ask!!!  A part of me wants to say...try the cake recipe I described with this icing and expand her tastes.  The cake and icing flavors compliment each other.  As I said earlier...Do not worry about the liquor.  She could eat the entire bowl of icing and only get a buzz from ALL THAT SUGAR!!  Please tell her that she has excellent taste and made me smile.  :)


Ray