AOk so I decided to get a recipe online for BC frosting, it was coming along beautifully and it looked really nice, I set it aside and the butter started showing through, I whipped it up again but nope after I frosted my cupcakes, the butter started showing again, I need a fluffy white frosting recipe and a thick frosting fir decorations,.please help! Btw, the butter I used was Country crock

Hi there~

     I have had that problem especially in hot, HOT weather where the butter separates from the confectioner's sugar and milk.  I learned to add CORNSTARCH until it came to the consistency I needed based on the amount of icing I was making ....  It works real well and does not affect the sweetness or flavor of the icing.  Good luck! 

Rita Metermaid

APs Country Crock isn't butter

Exactly what I was thinking Leah...Country Crock isn't butter.  Use real butter and you won't have any problems.

AOk thanks! What butter do you recomend?

Any butter that comes in a stick and says butter on it.  Spreads and margarines have different amounts of water than butter so can change how a recipe comes out.  There are a few people who use them in their buttercream but are in the minority, the recipe perhaps is adjusted to allow for it.  In general for a buttercream you use real butter and/or shortening.

unless you want to have a more buttery flavored frosting, read the butter label and avoid butter with added flavorings.  I buy butter that has just one ingredient :  pasteurized cream. I get at at Target or my local grocery store.  Crystal and Market Pantry brands pop into my head.  The more fancy Euroean types are much more buttery tasting, and I save those for sugar cookies and shortbreads.  Many butters have additional ingredients like natural flavoring and color.  The flavoring adds more butter taste, which I don't usually want in my frosting, and I don't usually want added yellow color either.   HTH!

Butter is made from cream (milk) country crock and margarine are made from partially hydrogenated oils...not good for making frosting...or much of anything, really IMHO!

I use land o lakes unsalted butter.

AThanks everyone for the feedback :) I cant wait to retry the recipe!

don't use salted butter the first time. that may be a taste you want to try, but the salt level in butter isn't regulated, so there's no way to know how much salt is in each brand.