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Entry No. 04 · Upsell 3
The Heat Edition · 2026Entry No. 04

The cake was fine. The frosting slid off it.

Nine frostings ranked by one question — what happens to it on a covered table at eighty-five degrees — with the ratio that holds, the four-minute rescue for a split batch, and the two that should never leave an air-conditioned room.

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Entry

The Frosting Fix

Upsell 3 · The Heat Edition · 2026
18-page eBook
Ranked by heat
9 frostings
Each with a hold time
1 core ratio
The one to memorize
Instant
Emailed the second you buy
Judged on the five below$10 · one-time
01Free recipe Reproduced in full
One page, before you pay

A whole page of it, on the house

Not a summary — the page as it appears in the eBook, with the schedule and the warning that go with it. Bake it this weekend and decide afterwards whether the other pages are worth ten dollars.

The Ratio That Holds

Make ahead · whip back on the day
Recipe No. 01
Prep
12 min
Bake
none
Serves
Covers one sheet cake
Crumb
Firm, pipeable, matte

What you need

  • Unsalted butter, cool not soft1 cup
  • Vegetable shortening½ cup
  • Powdered sugar, sifted5 cups
  • Heavy cream3 tbsp
  • Fine salt¼ tsp
From the fair bench

If it splits, it is temperature, not technique. Refrigerate the bowl fifteen minutes and whip again — it comes back nine times out of ten.

How it goes

  1. Start with butter at 65°F — cool to the touch, not soft. Warm butter is the single most common reason a frosting will not hold.

  2. Beat the butter and shortening three minutes until pale. The shortening is the part doing the heat work, and a third of the fat is enough to feel nothing in the taste.

  3. Add the sugar one cup at a time on low, then the cream and salt, then two minutes on medium.

  4. Use it at once, or refrigerate and whip it back for four minutes on the day.

Contains dairy. Frosting made with cream or cream cheese should not sit above 40°F for more than two hours; the heat chapter says which of the nine are the exceptions.

That was one recipe, in full and for free. Before anything is asked of you, here is what the rest of them are judged on.

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02The judging card Five criteria

Butter melts at ninety. Your table is at eighty-five.

That is the whole problem, and it is not solved by putting it in the shade. It is solved by changing the ratio before you whip it — a decision you make at the start, not a rescue you attempt at the end.

Judging cardEntry No. 04 · The Frosting Fix
HoldStill standing after two hours out
SheenDoes not weep or bead
PipeHolds an edge without chilling between
TasteSweet enough, not tooth-aching
RescueCan be brought back if it splits
03The countdown Nothing left to the morning

The order that keeps you out of trouble

Every recipe carries this, because the schedule is the part that decides whether a cake is ready or nearly ready.

Step 01
Two days outMake the base, refrigerate covered12 min
Step 02
Day of, morningWhip back four minutes, check the temperature5 min
Step 03
Crumb coatThin layer, then twenty minutes in the fridge20 min
Step 04
Final coatWork fast, keep the bowl cool15 min
Step 05
On the tableShade, cover, and a knife wiped between cuts
04The classes Six of them

What is in the tent

Every recipe is filed under one of six classes, the way a fair does it — so you can find the shape of cake you need before you read a word of it.

Sheet cakes — illustrative photograph
Sheet cakesClass 01
Cupcakes — illustrative photograph
CupcakesClass 02
Loaf & bundt — illustrative photograph
Loaf & bundtClass 03
Layer cakes — illustrative photograph
Layer cakesClass 04
Berries & tops — illustrative photograph
Berries & topsClass 05
Slices — illustrative photograph
SlicesClass 06
05Contents eBook · PDF

All nine are ranked and written out like this

  1. The Ratio That Holds— the default for any outdoor table p. 5
  2. Cream Cheese, And Its Clock— indoors, served cold p. 7
  3. Glaze, The Heat-Proof One— any temperature, any table p. 9
  4. Chocolate Ganache, Two Ratios— indoors, or cool days p. 11
  5. Dusted Sugar, When Nothing Else Works— ten minutes before serving p. 13
  6. Color Without Bleeding— any cake with two colors on it p. 16
18-page eBook
Ranked by heat
9 frostings
Each with a hold time
1 core ratio
The one to memorize
Instant
Emailed the second you buy
US measures
Cups, ounces, °F
Rescue chapter
For a split batch

You have read a whole recipe and the contents. The eBook is ten dollars, once, and it arrives by email in a couple of minutes.

Send me the nine frostings — $10

Allergens and common sense

Every recipe lists wheat, dairy, egg and nut content at the top. This is a cookbook, not dietary or medical advice — check with whoever is eating, and follow normal food handling for anything with dairy frosting on a warm day.

06Terms of return

Bake one. If it does not earn its place on your table, take the ten dollars back.

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Entry

What this is

  • All nine frostings, ranked by how they behave in heat
  • The core ratio that holds at eighty-five degrees
  • The four-minute rescue for a batch that split

What it is not

  • A subscription or an app
  • A course with videos to sit through
  • Anything shipped to your door
07Entry form

Ten dollars to stop losing
the cake to the weather.

Compare against: One batch of butter and sugar, thrown away

P.S. — Nine frostings, but really one number — sixty-five degrees. Get the butter there and most of this takes care of itself.
Entry formNo. 04 · Upsell 3
The Frosting Fix — eBook (PDF)$10.00
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08Questions Answered in order

What people ask before they bake

Is shortening necessary?

For an outdoor table in July, a third of the fat as shortening is what buys you the hold. Page 5 says exactly how much you can taste, and page 11 covers the all-butter version and where it works.

Can I fix a frosting that already split?

Usually. Fifteen minutes cold, then whip four minutes — page 8. It is temperature nine times out of ten.

What about cream cheese frosting?

It is one of the two that stay indoors. It is delicious and it will not hold on a hot table, and the book says so rather than pretending.

Do these work on any cake?

Yes. Frosting is independent of the cake underneath it, which is why this one is separate.

Are the quantities for a sheet cake?

Each recipe gives sheet, two-layer and cupcake quantities, because that is where people get caught short.

What do I actually get?

One PDF, 18 pages, emailed the moment you buy. One-time payment, no subscription.