How Much Buttercream For A Wedding Cake?
Decorating By nbrockman Updated 9 Feb 2016 , 5:58pm by kakeladi
Hi everyone, I'm VERY new to this forum. I am making a couple wedding cakes for my sisters wedding coming up and I'd like to know how to figure out how many lbs or cups buttercream I would need for the cakes-- is there a rule of thumb or formula or there? I'm doing a WASC recipe for the cakes and American buttercream for the icing, no fondant.
The first cake is a square 10", 8", 6" which has two 2" layers each tier.
The second cake is a round 12", 8", 6" which also has two 2" layers each tier.
Also, do most of you do half and half of shortening and butter or all shortening for a true white icing? Thanks in advance!
I use a high ratio shortening "Alpine" then add butter flavoring.
For American buttercream I always estimate about 8 pounds of confectioner's sugar for an average three-tiered cake, and it's generally about right. Just have a little extra of the ingredients on hand in case you need to make some more, but for the most part it works out.
i also use all butter -- i tell my brides the icing will be an off white because it's food so i talk 'em into it -- well i mean i don't give them any room to order it otherwise --
and i often use buttermilk so it is not super sweet
The thumb rule I was taught (passed on in when I taught) is one batch of b'cream using 2# of sugar per cake mix. It's a good rule:) You don't give us any idea what size the tiers are to be - or how many servings so we can't help any more than that.
If you use the recipe I posted "2 of everything' in the recipe section of this site it's perfect. It's wonderful using 1/2 butter 1/2 Crisco and have a wonderful flavor and ease of use. I tried to find the link for you be all I get 1/2 a million PICTURES instead of recipes :( |After I post this I'll try going through google and if I find the link I'll come back and post it for you.
The walls of my shop were off white (almost a creamy white) and I would point out that that's the color the icing would be. Plus the could see the icing in the tasting samples they got. In over 20 year I have only *1* bride who was unhappy. I arrived to find All the linens used for her outdoor wedding were sooooo *blue* white there was no way I could have come even close to matching it.
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