tinklee's favorite buttercream frosting

tinklee
tinklee @cook_3915364
USA

I love this frosting! I can do so many different things with it! from roses, to boarders and figures, today I mixed it with whipping cream and strawberries for a filling gvc.

tinklee's favorite buttercream frosting

I love this frosting! I can do so many different things with it! from roses, to boarders and figures, today I mixed it with whipping cream and strawberries for a filling gvc.

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Ingredients

  1. 7 1/2 cuppowdered sugar
  2. 2 1/4 cupvegtable shortening
  3. 6 tbspunsalted butter softened
  4. 1 1/2 tbspvanilla extract
  5. 1/4 cupcold water
  6. 2 tbspcold water

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    put the sugar, shortening, butter, and vanilla in a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and paddle on low-med speed into mixture is smooth, with no lumps, this will take about 3 minutes,( if you only have a hand mixer, start mixing on low to medium, until you get mixture smooth with no lumps)

  2. 2

    with motor running add both amounts of water in a thin stream and continue to paddle until all water is absorbed( for a hand mixer, if you cannot add in a stream add 1 teaspoon at a time and mix in)

  3. 3

    this makes 6cups of frosting enough to frost and fill a 2 layer 9" cake

  4. 4

    recipe by buddy valastro, better known as the cake boss

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I love being in the kitchen and My hubby and I love riding bikes! We do a lot of fundraising for the veterans homes in our area and other programs while we ride our bikes, thats part of what our group is all about, I have a couple auto immune diseases that can slow me down quite a bit, I have Lupus and Sclerderma to name some of what I suffer, but I keep going and will not stop I know I just have to, I have been married for 37 wonderful years to a great man, have 2 great boys and adore all my grandkids
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Comments (6)

kate
kate @cook_3478240
hey, tink. This new app blows so just wanted to say thank you for the years of great cooking and awesome recipes. I feel like this big allthecooks family just got divorced! take care I'll miss u

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