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Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Buttercream Icing

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Frank Flowers
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Buttercream Icing

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, buttercream icing. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, and vanilla. Beat in the milk, and continue mixing until light and fluffy. Keep icing covered until ready to decorate. Cream room temperature butter with a hand mixer, the paddle attachment of a stand mixer, or a wooden spoon until smooth and fluffy.

Buttercream Icing is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Buttercream Icing is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook buttercream icing using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Buttercream Icing:
  1. Get Icing
  2. Make ready 1 cup unsalted butter
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
  4. Take 5 cup confectioner sugar
  5. Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp whipping cream

Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount. A cooled cooked custard is beaten into whipped butter.

Instructions to make Buttercream Icing:
  1. Sift confectioner sugar so as to get rid of any lumps.
  2. Soften butter at room temperature and beat for 5 minutes until fluffy and creamy.
  3. Add the vegetable shortening and beat together with butter for 3 minutes until It's incorporated.
  4. Start adding the sugar little by little until It's all well incorporated and beat for 5 minutes after all the sugar has been added.
  5. Add vanilla extract and whipping cream, beat for another 5 minutes until fluffy and creamy.
  6. Note: You can add other flavors and color the icing any way you like. If too soft you can add more sugar little by little until the desired consistency is reached.

If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount. A cooled cooked custard is beaten into whipped butter. In a standing mixer fitted with a whisk, mix together sugar and butter. Cream butter and then add vanilla and optional salt. (To cut the sweetness I usually sprinkle some salt in the vanilla, so it will dissolve.). Add sugar a cup at a time beating on medium speed.

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