Accidentally used salted butter...fix?

adding powdered sugar will only give you soup. you can try to add more vanilla, but you're not going to be able to get rid of the saltiness altogether. i made a choc IMBC for a regular customer once and accidentally used salted. he complained about the flavor and i never saw him again. i only realized my mistake later. 

save it for cookie filling for the kids. salt is such a powerful taste, i don't think you're going to want it anywhere near a fresh batch. 

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Originally Posted by kakesalakim 

What is SMBC and IMBC?

SMBC= Swiss Meringue Butter Cream

IMBC = Italian Meringue Butter Cream

I have done it before and could not bring myself to throwing it out, so I added peanut butter to it. and used it in a chunky  monkey cake

I use salted butter for one of my four sticks. The reviews so far have been positive. 

I only make dense, non-whipped, cold-process American BC ("the recipe that's been on the back of the C&H powdered sugar box since before most of us were born," hand-mixed with a dinner fork) myself, so I have exactly zero experience with SMBC or IMBC, but I do know that I've never used anything but salted butter in my BC (indeed, the only thing I usually use unsalted butter for is turkey dressing, sauteing the onions and celery in a 50-50 mix of unsalted butter and salted margarine).

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Originally Posted by hbquikcomjamesl 

I only make dense, non-whipped, cold-process American BC ("the recipe that's been on the back of the C&H powdered sugar box since before most of us were born," hand-mixed with a dinner fork) myself, so I have exactly zero experience with SMBC or IMBC, but I do know that I've never used anything but salted butter in my BC (indeed, the only thing I usually use unsalted butter for is turkey dressing, sauteing the onions and celery in a 50-50 mix of unsalted butter and salted margarine).

I don't do the american buttercream, but still a dense one with granulated sugar and butter and I also always use salted, I actually did two batches and forced all my poor friends and family that I could find to taste it, and everyone chose the salted.

In the SMBC though, the salt is really obvious, it surprised me, I thought the sugar would cut it more.