Wedding Cake Buttercream Frosting Double Batch Recipes

WEDDING CAKE FROSTING

Steps:

• Cream the butter and shortening together until smooth. Gradually add the sugar, milk, and vanilla extract. Mix until smooth.

EXTRA SPECIAL BUTTERCREAM ICING

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening until fluffy.
• Add sugar, meringue powder, about half of the cream, and continue creaming until well blended.
• Add salt, flavorings and enough whipping cream to make the consistency you need.
• Beat at medium speed until icing is fluffy.
• You may substitute all shortening for the butter, which will give a pure white icing, but the flavor will not be quite as good.
• I used butter and real vanilla and the icing turned out a very pale ivory, which I personally prefer to a stark-white icing.
• The meringue powder gives the icing a light crust, but it remains soft underneath.

WEDDING CAKE FROSTING

Steps:

• Cream together softened butter, shortening and milk with an electric mixer.
• Next add the clear vanilla extract.
• Then add the powdered sugar slowly.
• Note: 2 pounds of powdered sugar is 8 cups.

WEDDING CAKE BUTTERCREAM FROSTING (DOUBLE BATCH)

Steps:

• Place all ingredients, EXCEPT SUGAR, into a bowl and whip until creamy. Add sugar, a little at a time. Beat on medium speed for 6 minutes. This will be quite firm -- add water and coloring to various bowls of frosting to obtain whatever consistency you need for that particular job. This batch will frost and decorate a double layer 9 inch cake and perhaps leave some over for crumb coating a future cake.