Ever since I took that cupcake decorating course I wrote about a few weeks ago, one thought does not give me peace.Luckily I haven’t lost much sleep over it but it has kept me occupied during many times. And here it is…

Should you sacrifice flavor for looks and vice versa?

Let me explain: I personally do not like the taste of buttercream – I find it too sweet and too heavy. But it pipes so prettily! My absolute favorite (which comes down a treat with friends and family too) is cream cheese frosting. But I have so far not found a recipe which gives me the proper piping consistency for a (professional) nice finish. I am constantly on the lookout and keep experimenting but the fails prevail until now.

I honestly hope it is not just me who ends up with an extremely runny cream cheese frosting more times than willing to admit. Just last night I was trying out a new recipe I came across which promised nicely piped frosting. But I failed again – or my basic hand mixer which only has slow and fast let me down (I like to believe it is the latter otherwise I end up doubting if I am any good in the kitchen at all). As I write this, an emergency (recycled) cheesecake is in the oven – I didn’t have the heart to throw yet another bowl of runny icing, after my ridiculous cream cheese quest from the previous post, let alone all the nice ingredients which went is, as well as me spending plenty of time trying to make/fix it.

So I need my dear readers’ advice – pretty please, share it in the comments or write me an email. What would you do? Try out new cream cheese frosting recipes until you find a fool-proof one or settle for buttercream which isn’t tasty but looks good? Help!