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Butter Cream Frosting Recipes

© Roberta Hovermale

Butter Cream Frosting is a traditional choice for frosting most cakes. Its creamy smooth texture makes it great to work with - whether you are doing a smooth finish or using it for borders. You can make flowers from it also but it will not have the stiff consistency as Royal Icing does. Since it does have butter or margarine in these recipes take into consideration that it is a softer icing and it is effected by being in too warm of a room. But don't fret most Butter Cream frosting are not shrinking violets and can hold their own.

Some recipes call for meringue( some using fresh egg whites and some using powdered egg whites). If you are using a recipe for fresh uncooked egg whites - definitely REFRIGERATE your cake. I find using powdered meringue is the safest way to go. Take special note that if you are making a meringue buttercream for a child's cake , someone who is pregnant, nursing mom,elderly person - do yourself a favor and use powdered meringue.

Because obviously Butter Cream Frosting involves using butter or margarine - your "white " butter cream frosting may have a ivory or off white color to it. It depends on what type of butter or margarine you use - if the color has a lot of yellow then the more off white the color will be. You can get a whitener to add in order to "whiten" the frosting color from a cake supply store. Or you can check out the WILTON recipe for Snow White Butter Cream Frosting below.

The following are some sites that offer Butter Cream Frosting recipes that may appeal to you.

Butter Cream Frosting Recipe http://www.homecooking.about.com/food/ho...

http://www.wilton.com/ri/icing/bcream.htm

Snow White Butter Cream Frosting http://www.wilton.com/ri/icing/snow.htm

Listings of Different Flavored Butter Cream Frostings from Cakerecipe.com http://www.search.allrecipes.com/searchr...

Full Range of Flavored Frosting Recipes from SOAR http://www.soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/des...

Meringue Butter Cream Frosting from Martha Stewart http://www.marthastewart.com/weddings/ca...

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