The chemistry of icing

[marilynfl]

So I'm confused.

This in and of itself is not unusual. But in this case, I'm simply looking for ANY WORD that would remotely let me believe there is cheese in the following "cream cheese" product:

Duff Goldman's (Charm City Cakes) "Not Your Bagel's Cream Cheese Frosting."

It's canned icing, it was on sale and I was curious about the taste. But after reading the list of ingredients, I'm even more curious about the chemistry behind this product. I see the word "Lactic acid" at the very bottom, but thought you could remove lactic acid and still have dairy? So where's the dairy?

Ingredients: Sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (contains one or more of the following: partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil), water, high fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial flavor with soy lecithin, corn starch, modified wheat starch, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides with preservatives (mixed tocopherols, ascorbic acid and citric acid), soy lecithin, polysorbate 60), salt, preservative (potassium sorbate), color (titanium dioxide, yellow 5 and 6), dextrose, lactic acid, agar

CONTAINS: Wheat, milk, soy

Sounds yummy, huh.

 

[charlie]

That is wrong on so many levels

 

[wigs]

Have you summoned the courage to taste this icing, Marilyn?

 

[marilynfl]

No. But I did stick a HazMat warning label on it.

 

[mariadnoca]

Canned icing is a pet peeve of mine. The horror of it should not exist when icing is so easy to make

this stuff sounds even worse!

 

[cynupstateny]

My niece uses it. Three kids under 10 and icing store bought sugar cookies

keeps them busy on a rainy day. Sometimes she sits in a closet and eats it with a spoon. Whatever gets you through the day!

 

[marilynfl]

Friends gave me a can of fudge icing for my 25th birthday. We opened it and passed it around as...

...everyone knew how much I liked to bake and loved chocolate. This was my version of passing a joint.

It's annoying being a foregone conclusion.

PS: I'm pretty sure 90% of the chemicals in Duff's icing weren't even invented that many decades ago.

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

It reads like the typical store-bought cakes and cupcakes icing made from shortening and sugar.

And TONS of food coloring.

Disgusting.

Michael

 

[marilynfl]

But where's the dairy? The ingredients say that dairy is included.

 

[mistral]

The dairy must be because the lactic acid may be derived from milk products. (nt)

 

[michael-in-phoenix]

That's what I thought when I read the ingredients list. Lactic acid is a milk component.

 

[marilynfl]

Elsie is standing in a field somewhere, chewing cud and shaking her head.

 

[mariadnoca]

So true. Somewhere I think I still have my childhood Elise mug.