How to make your own butter cream frosting

This is seriously easy and DELICIOUS!  Tastes just like the bakery frosting they use on their sheet cakes.  I would highly recommend using this recipe to make your own wedding cake and investing a little cash into some cake decorating tools.  You don't need anything too fancy, but making your own cake will save you a lot of money.

How to make delicious butter-cream frosting

This butter-cream frosting recipe is similar to a recipe I found on the back of a bag of sugar but after making several batches of this frosting, I have made some improvements.  First of all you’ll absolutely need a mixer, this frosting is thick and creamy and tastes just like the stuff at the bakery instead of those small containers you can buy in the cake mix aisle.  This stuff is very delicious and rich, perfect for decorating a wedding cake!

Ingredients: 

(Makes enough frosting for one large sheet cake)

2 lbs. Powdered Sugar

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup water (room temperature)

2 ½ teaspoon vanilla

2/3 cup of butter (must be actual butter, no margarine, works best of butter is room temperature)

Food coloring (if necessary)

Put all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater or mixer (will be too thick for a spoon and won’t mix evenly).  Beat until smooth and creamy, this can take awhile.  If the frosting is too thick and stiff to stir properly, try adding a few drops of water.  Just a few drops at a time though, this frosting will not hold up if it’s too thin.

Cover your bowl and use as soon as cake is ready.  After the cake is frosted, keep cake in the refrigerator so the frosting will keep its design.  Take out an hour before serving for frosting and cake to thaw completely.  Remember to make another batch if you want to decorate with more than one color of frosting.


 

Want something besides white?  Of course you can mix in some food coloring, but what about color swirls?  For that, you'll need a color paste- regular food coloring liquid won't work- and line your frosting bag with stripes.  Four long vertical stripes along the inside of the bag with your colors and boom, you look like the Cake Boss.  Click on the pictures for more detail.

Enjoy!  

Heather Henry Kraabel

http://500dollarwedding.blogspot.com

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