Jack's vanilla raspberry cake with meringue buttercream frosting, while not up to the standards of the top 2, also gets positive feedback and saves him from elimination.
Royal icing, marzipan (or a less sweet version, known as almond paste), fondant icing (also known as sugarpaste) and buttercream are used as covering icings and to create decorations.
Avoid directly heating the buttercream.
Cooling buttercream causes it to harden.
French buttercream tends to melt faster than other buttercreams due to the high content of fat from the egg yolks and butter.
Traditionally, the filling was buttercream (which is still used in home-made recipes) but nowadays cheaper fats have replaced butter in mass-produced biscuits.
The macaron is commonly filled with ganache, buttercream or jam filling sandwiched between two biscuits.
The cake has two airy layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling.
