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Buttercream frosting is a tasty addition to almost any cake. How to make buttercream icing shows you how to make both meringue-style and eggless buttercreams.
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Introduction
- Buttercream icing is great for frosting almost any kind of layer or sheet cake. It's sweet, creamy and buttery, as its name suggests. You can make it with or without eggs and vary its consistency and color for different decorating purposes. Buttercream is an easy, must-know recipe for bakers.
Variations
- It's easy to play around with the flavor and color of your buttercream.
- Add white chocolate to your buttercream.Epicurious: White Chocolate Layer Cake with Apricot Filling and White Chocolate Buttercream (June 2003)
- Substitute brown sugar for white sugar.Epicurious: Brown Sugar Buttercream (January 2001)
- Add coffee and chocolate for a mocha buttercream.Epicurious: Mocha Buttercream (January 2001)
- Make buttercream fondant to decorate cakes.Allrecipes: Rolled Buttercream Fondant
- Replace the vanilla extract with mint, hazelnut, almond, raspberry or any other extract or flavoring you desire.Allrecipes: Mint Buttercream Frosting with Dark Chocolate Glaze
- Make stiffer decorating buttercream to pipe flowers and other decorations.MarthaStewart.com: Meringue Buttercream Frosting for Buttercream Flowers
- Add food coloring to change the icing's color.
Conclusion
- Now you should have a handle on the process for making one of the most popular types of icing. Of course, icing shouldn't be eaten alone, so you'll have to bake up something to spread it on. Check out Mahalo's pages on red velvet cake, chocolate cake, cupcakes and wedding cakes.
