Wedding Cake Buttercream Frosting
I have been in the process of trying to make the PERFECT buttercream for YEARSSSSS. Years. After lots of trial and error and lots of taste testing (can’t complain) I have finally figured it out. The ingredients are very specific. No substitutions or it just won’t taste right. I’m sorry.
what you need:
- 4 sticks unsalted EUROPEAN butter at room temperature (good butter IS KEY, don’t be a cheap ass, get the good shit)
- 1 (2lb) bag powdered sugar
- 1 T CLEAR vanilla extract (no brown extract. I mean it.)
- 1 T almond extract
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt
- Heavy cream (you will prob use around 6-8 T but TBD)
- special equipment needed: stand mixer or electric hand mixer
what you need to do:
- First things first: your butter needs to be at room temp. Do NOT try to warm it up and do NOT try to use cold butter. Seriously. Leave it out overnight if you need to, but it needs to be out for at least ~4 hours.
- Put your butter in your mixer and let it whip for about 5-7 minutes. Seriously. It needs to be WHITE (see below picture). You want to whip the shit out of this so that the “butter” taste is gone.
- Scrape all the sides and the bottom of the bowl, add salt, and whip for another 1-2 minutes.
- Add powdered sugar, slowly, about 1 cup at a time.
- After you add half the bag, then add in your extracts. (If you want plain buttercream you can leave out the almond extract and just add vanilla!)
- Add the rest of the bag of powdered sugar. It will be a little thick and clumpy but that is okay.
- Add 2 T of heavy cream and gradually turn up mixer speed to high. Let that shit whip and whip and whip. You gotta get all the air bubbles out of it.
- Turn to low and add another T of cream. Whip on medium speed.
- Your frosting should be a perfect consistency by now, but if not- add in more cream 1 T at a time until it reaches the consistency you want. If it’s too thick, it will be hard to spread.
- Voila!!! This makes a shit ton of frosting. Enough to frost a 6” or 8” cake or a few dozen cupcakes. Or you can just eat it with a spoon right out of the bowl. We don’t judge here.
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