Simple Buttercream
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- Yield Makes 2 3/4 cups
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Ingredients
- 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 pound confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Directions
- In a mixer bowl fitted with a paddle attachment, combine butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt. Beat on high speed 2 to 3 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl occasionally.
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This is enough for 2 of these cakes. Halve the recipe unless using for a 2 cake. While delicious, there was more icing than cake!
The buttercream does get more "white" the longer it is whipped, not pure white but I made a perfectly acceptable snowman using this simple frosting and he didn't look dirty. =)
Just don't add the salt that is in the recipe.
Salted butter can be used - I never use unsalted when not cooking it. Salt kills pathogens that could be in the butter.
You can't substitute salted butter or it will be inedible. Unsalted butter is always used in baking.
What would the difference be if I used regular salted butter instead of unsalted?
unfortunately, perfectly white "buttercream" is made with shortening and not butter.
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
The picture shows such a pure white icing. How? All my buttercream icing recipes end up yellow due to the butter. What am I missing?
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