What is the best product to use to decorate ice cream cakes?
Another tough question to answer generally, as a lot depends on your particular customer base and what they expect on a cake. That said, we talk to many people in the ice cream cake business who ice their cakes using freshly made ice cream, or soft serve, or whipped cream, or even CoolWhip. Personally at my store, we use a pre-whipped non-dairy topping made by Flavor Right Foods (labeled as “Pre-Whipped Icing and Filling – Vanilla”). It comes frozen in a 15 lb container – roughly the size of a five gallon bucket – and needs to be warmed to refrigeration temperatures before using. The same product is also available in cases of 16 one-pound pastry bags. Rich’s sells a similar product, which you may find at your local Restaurant Depot store. For decorations, we prefer to use an imitation Buttercreme frosting, as we find that it holds the sharp decoration details better than the whipped topping. We use a shelf stable (no refrigeration required) product made by Dawn, but many manufacturers
