Buttercream Icing

I was looking for a good recipe for buttercream icing on the internet a couple years ago and found this one. It’s not overly sweet and it’s a big hit. My mom likes to take this icing and dip vanilla wafers in it : D

Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

1/2 cup white vegetable shortening
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 tsp. vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
2 Tbs. 1% or 2% milk

Instructions

Cream butter, add shortening and vanilla, cream together till smooth. Beat in sugar, one cup at a time – 4 cups is what the recipe calls for, but I, personally, think 4 cups is a bit much, so I gather 4 cups (one pound) in the beginning, but I add to taste and thickness – Remember, though, that you will be adding 2 Tbs milk so it’ll cut down on the thickness of your icing. After the sugar is well blended witht the other ingredients, add your two Tbs milk and blend together. Store in fridge after use.

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Comments (5)

coresuth on 13 Jan 2010 , 3:27pm

I used this icing for my daughter's firt birthday and it turned out great!! The consistency was just the kind i needed... I loved that it smoothed easily..

ChristieS8 on 24 Mar 2012 , 8:43am

is it true that buttercream icing with butter in it doesn't turn out white? I was told to never use buttercream recipes with butter in them, but the recipe I use now is just the wilton class buttercream recipe, it has no butter, but I'm just not that crazy about the taste of it, way too sweet and sometimes has a crisco taste to it...do you have trouble with this recipe not being very white?

mum321 on 14 May 2012 , 5:48am

Same question as ChristieS8... Is it sort of yellow or can you get it really white?

SugrBritches38 on 29 Jul 2012 , 7:01pm

I use butter and crisco in my buttercream and it does not have a yellow tint...I will get a ivory tint if using vanilla extract.

colvin5 on 27 Sep 2012 , 11:14am

you can get clear vanilla extract to avoid the tinting

Buttercream Icing