Buttercream Icing Medium Consistency Recipes

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening with mixer.
• add vanilla.
• gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating on medium speed.
• scrape sides and bottom of bowl often.
• when all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk or water and beat at medium speed until ready to use.
• refridgerate leftover icing in an airtight container.
• Rewhip before using.
• *****For chocolate icing.
• Add cocoa powder or melted chocolate when adding the sugar.

Steps:

• In a standing mixer fitted with a whisk, mix together sugar and butter. Mix on low speed until well blended and then increase speed to medium and beat for another 3 minutes.
• Add vanilla and cream and continue to beat on medium speed for 1 minute more, adding more cream if needed for spreading consistency.

Steps:

• Cream shortening , flavoring & water. Add dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until all ingredients have been thoroughly mixed together.
• Blend an additional minute or so, until creamy. If too hard, add more water a tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached.
• Makes enough buttercream to frost 36 cupcakes.
• For the Chocolate Buttercream, add the additional ingredients as the recipe calls for.
• * Any flavours/extracts may be used to suit your taste.

Steps:

• Beat 600g sifted icing sugar and 300g butter together with your chosen flavouring and colouring if using, add 2-3 tablespoons of boiling water to loosen and beat until smooth.
• Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe onto cupcakes or smear in the middle and over the top of a 20cm cake using a palette knife.

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening with mixer.
• Add vanilla.
• Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often.
• When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. If necessary, add more milk to reach the desired consistency to spread on cake.
• Keep icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to use. Keep icing bowl in refrigerator when not in use.
• Refrigerate in an airtight container. This icing can be stored for two weeks. Rewhip before using.

Steps:

• Beat shortening and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth, about 3 minutes; stir in vanilla extract. Beat sugar, one cup at a time, into butter mixture on medium speed. Add milk and beat on high speed until light and fluffy.
• Keep icing covered with a damp cloth until ready to decorate. For best results, keep icing refrigerated when not using.

Steps:

• For stiff consistency icing (flowers), dissolve salt in water.
• Cream shortening, vanilla and water in a standup mixer.
• Mix the meringue powder into the icing sugar.
• Add the sugar to the mixer about a 1/4 cup at a time on medium speed.
• Whip icing on high for a minute or so until creamy.
• For medium consistency icing (boarders, writing), add 1 tbsp + 3 tsp of extra water.
• For thin consistency icing (icing a cake), add 2 tbsp + 6 tsp of extra water.

Steps:

• In a heavy-duty saucepan, mix water with sugar until it is of even consistency.
• Put saucepan on low-med heat.
• Meanwhile, in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat egg whites on medium until they start getting stiff, then opaque. This takes about 45 seconds per egg white.
• When the sugar syrup in the pan goes into a boil for at least a minute (without burning), turn off the heat.
• With the mixer still on medium speed, pour the boiling sugar syrup into the stiffened egg whites, using a funnel. The funnel should aim directly at the egg whites in the bowl, using care not to let the sugar syrup touch the side of the bowl or the whisk, as this could cause stringy sugar crystals to form in the icing, which should be silky smooth.
• Keep the mixer on medium speed for about 10 minutes - scraping the sides of the bowl every 3 minutes or so.
• When the egg whites resembles thick marshmallow fluff, keep the mixer on low to medium speed, and start adding the butter, one half-stick at a time.
• Wait until the entire half stick is incorporated before adding the next.
• When you've added the fifth or sixth stick of butter, the mixture may begin to look watery and lumpy, like cottage cheese. This is alright - simply keep adding the rest of the butter and leave the mixer on.
• Add vanilla.
• Once all the butter has been added, turn the mixer up to medium-high and watch it turn from lumpy, greasy cottage cheese into a silken smooth, dense, whipped cloud of heavenly, delicious, smooth buttercream.
• Use buttercream right away, or it can be refrigerated.
• If refrigerated, let buttercream come to room temperature for at least 2 hours before attempting to re-beat it. Otherwise, you will, once again, have the greasy cottage cheese effect, and it does take considerable effort to rebeat it to the perfect consistency.