You can utilize all butter within this quick buttercream, but using vegetable shortening constitutes a frosting that'll be just a little firmer in warmer temperatures. Also, while using optional meringue powder, whilst not necessary, can help your frosting holds its shape.
This quantity of frosting will frost the top of the a 9" x 13" cake, or about 15 to 18 cupcakes. If you are frosting a layer cake, double the amount recipe to possess enough frosting to pipe adornments.
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Prep ten mins. Total ten mins. Yield 2 1/2 cups
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter or vegetable shortening, or perhaps a combination
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon meringue powder. optional, for "holding power"
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- 2 1/two to three cups confectioners' sugar or glazing sugar
- two to four tablespoons milk
- 4 ounces unsalted butter or vegetable shortening, or perhaps a combination
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 ounce meringue powder. optional, for "holding power"
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- ten to twelve ounces confectioners' sugar or glazing sugar
- one to two ounces milk
- 113g unsalted butter or vegetable shortening, or perhaps a combination
- pinch of salt
- 14g meringue powder. optional, for "holding power"
- 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
- 283g to 340g confectioners' sugar or glazing sugar
- 28g to 57g milk
Instructions
- Beat the butter and/or shortening until fluffy.
- Beat within the salt, meringue powder, and vanilla.
- Add some confectioners' or glazing sugar and a pair of tablespoons the milk, and beat until smooth. Scrape the edges and bottom from the bowl.
- Adjust the consistency from the frosting when needed with the addition of more confectioners' sugar or milk.
- If you are not likely to make use of the frosting immediately, ensure that it stays at 70 degrees, covered, to avoid it from creating a dry crust.
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Thanks! I create a standard buttercream for many of my cakes, adding cacao powder basically want chocolate. But Never imagined of adding meringue powder! A few days ago I'm baking and decorating an instrument cake for any party. The meringue powder is a great help! I really like your site.
LizzieBobsBakery from Illinois
OMG! I've always designed a shortening based buttercream, which really isnt a real butter buttercream. I'm freaking surprised about the flavour and texture of the true all butter buttercream. WOW! It simply melts inside your mouth without that greasy after taste like shortening leaves inside your mouth. I added obvious vanilla rather of standard vanilla, Watkins brand, which is a real loaves of bread buttercream. Wouldso would I create chocolate? Add cacao powder? along with other flavors? I'm a convert without a doubt. What a significant difference all butter makes which inclusion of the meringue powder causes it to be just like stable as my all shortening american buttercream. This can be a champion without a doubt! WOW. I am unable to let you know enough advantages to this taste of the true buttercream, and without getting to prepare egg-whites, GENIUS! I wish to send big hugs and kisses to KAF inventors of the magical, existence altering, career boosting discovery. Everyone ROCK!
Rachel S from Dublin, Ireland
Chose to make this yesterday for everyone on cupcakes to visitors, and everybody stated it had been the very best buttercream icing they'd ever endured. Used to do to add much more icing sugar, however the butter within Ireland has provided me some trouble before when you are extra soft. It had been a pleasant color along with a good degree of sweetness - I'm deleting these buttercream icing recipes and just causeing this to be one in the future!
TH from Germantown, OH
I chose to make this recipe to choose KAF's Cherry Cupcakes - I made the cherry version which was suggested, using two tablespoons of tart cherry juice concentrate and 1 tablespoon of milk. With 11 ounces of powdered sugar and also the meringue powder, the end result was the right consistency for piping. For 12 cupcakes + 4 small cupcakes, I'd much more frosting than I desired, and would cut back this recipe with a third (for easy converting the tablespoon measurements!) the next time.
Adrianne from MD
This is really easy. The very first time I managed to get I believe my metal mixing bowl was cold, which made the butter and sugar not match too. So next time I ensured my butter really was soft and also the bowl wasn't cold. Despite the fact that I made use of all butter / no shortening, and I didn't have merengue powder, I still got frosting that piped superbly onto cupcakes and held their shape overnight and before the mid-day in a coworker's baby shower celebration. I required reviewers' advice and covered them at room temp to help keep the frosting from obtaining a crust. I additionally used someone's tip of adding a "blob" of marshmallow fluff, that we think enhanced the fluffiness for cupcakes. I made use of this on vanilla cupcakes with raspberry filling along with a raspberry on the top plus they looked amazing and that i got a lot of compliments. and individuals wanting me to ensure they are later on :)
Beginning from Bainbridge Island, WA
The only issue with this particular recipe is. it's so amazing I eat bowls from it before i find yourself getting it around the cake. I have never made such amazing frosting. This really is my visit again and again. Initially I cringed at the idea of utilizing shortening inside a frosting. However I allow it to be half butter and half shortening - and sift the flower - which is so smooth and creamy and tasty and scrumptious. I will not use every other frosting recipe again!
My dear jeeze it was very easy and tasty. I had been searching for any dairy free frosting which labored great! I made use of butter flavor Palm oil shortening and coconut milk. I additionally added some almond flavoring. I did not have meringue powder also it still labored fine. This is my visit frosting! I am glad I tried it out!
Lisa Pilaitis from Pa
I must know how do you get this to chocolate butter cream?
You are able to melt some chocolate and whisk a little area of the buttercream in, therefore the chocolate doesn't seize, then stir that back to all of those other plain buttercream. Happy baking! Laurie@KAF
Could not be simpler. Using the mixture of shortening and meringue powder, the frosting holds its shape superbly, for a cake decorating-challenged baker much like me!
This frosting is simple to create. It spreads well and generously frosts 2 dozen cupcakes. My daughter requested strawberry frosting, so before adding the vanilla, I divided it and added vanilla to half and homemade strawberry jam to another half. The end result would be a pretty pink with visible items of bananas. Both flavors were scrumptious.
This frosting is simple to create. It spreads well and generously frosts 2 dozen cupcakes. My daughter requested strawberry frosting, so before adding the vanilla, I divided it and added vanilla to half and homemade strawberry jam to another half. The end result would be a pretty pink with visible items of bananas. Both flavors were scrumptious.
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