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Basic Buttercream

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Everyone should have a buttercream recipe up their sleeve -- and a little extra to lick from the mixing bowl.

Source: Martha Stewart Living, February 2009
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Directions

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Cook's Notes

This recipe is used with our Mini Chocolate Cupcakes with Multicolored Frosting, Brownie Heart Cupcakes, Edible-Flowers Cupcakes, and Chocolate-Chip Frosting.

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  • Damien Servoz
    3 AUG, 2014
    Umm, butter cream without any egg yolks ? It takes 10 mn to beat sugar and yolks, and to heat them up in boiling milk with real vanilla. That's how you get taste. Not with butter and icing sugar.
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    • neskid84
      14 FEB, 2015
      actually Sarah Sezz there is eggs in buttercream. What most people know as buttercream is simply butter that has been whipped with flavoring, powdered sugar, and some milk. A real buttercream (French, Swiss, Italian) is made by adding butter to a meringue. Real buttercream – made with a meringue - is about 40% less fat per serving than the American buttercream made sans meringue. sooo don't you feel dumb now :)
    • Sarah Sezz Bidmead
      15 JAN, 2015
      There's no eggs in butter cream.. ever.
  • Laurapnegron
    18 JUL, 2014
    Hi guys! I have a question... I don't have an electric mixer can I still do this recipe?
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  • KayEsEm
    14 MAR, 2012
    Awesome recipe! (:
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  • KayEsEm
    14 MAR, 2012
    Awesome recipe! (:
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  • ChefTBaks
    22 JAN, 2012
    I used this with the one-bowl chocolate cupcakes. Very good. The bad part was that my arm got tired mixing in the sugar incrementally. Seems like to took forever (I followed the directions exactly)!
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  • yoly_lara
    19 DEC, 2011
    love it
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  • Mona_a
    10 JUL, 2011
    j8
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  • asterstar
    25 SEP, 2010
    Oops...not muffins, the chocolate chip cupcakes!
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  • asterstar
    25 SEP, 2010
    This is a super easy recipe, but not even close to the best buttercream I've had or made. The powdered sugar doesn't make it grainy but it's not a totally smooth frosting either. it is EXTREMELY sweet...I paired it with the chocolate chip muffins and it's almost too sugary to enjoy.
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  • timlinda
    12 APR, 2010
    Try a couple tsps. of cream instead of water.
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