For the icing, mix the lime zest with the sifted icing sugar and add just enough lime juice to make a thick but still spreadable consistency.
Transfer to a stand mixer, and beat with a paddle until creamy and of a spreadable consistency.
She poaches the firm ones and turns the rest into conserves or its thick, spreadable kin, butter.
3. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and stir in the jam and enough water to thin mixture to a spreadable consistency.
Add enough milk to loosen the buttercream to a lighter, spreadable consistency – it ought to be soft enough to spread over the delicate cake layers without ripping them.
In a tasting at The New York Times of both new and familiar brands, the butters were allowed to soften first to a spreadable consistency.
Gradually stir in enough boiling water to the sugar to make a thick, spreadable mixture. 5. Put half the frosting in the top half of a double-boiler.
And as you also need some sort of fat to give it that creamy, spreadable consistency, it may as well be something delicious, rather than Hotel Chocolat's vegetable oil.
Jam is similarly made by crushing a fruit, but this spread leaves in most of the solid pieces of the fruit's fibers and seeds (if they're small enough and safe to consume) to give it a spreadable consistency.
Egg yolks, however, work brilliantly to soften the cheese to a spreadable consistency, although I wouldn't wait until it's completely cool to stir them in, as Simon and Lindsay suggest, because by this point it has solidified to such an extent that it's difficult to beat back into smooth submission.
Beat together the remaining 25g/1oz butter and flour until it becomes a smooth, spreadable consistency.
