I am making a cake with fondont accents, but am looking for a buttercream that is not so sweet, they always oder cakes with whipped frosting, but the cake they wanted has fondont accents and i told them that fondont doesnt stick on whipped cream, I made this buttercream frosting recipe that someone one gave me it taste likw butter, i didnt like that so anyone knows any buttercream frosting that not sweet

I understand that Italian Meringue Buttercream (IMBC) is less sweet tasting. I'm going to give it a try, as my husband doesn't like it too sweet either. There's a few in the recipes section. I have also made a white chocolate cream cheese icing that is fantastic and doens't taste too sweet either! PM me if you're interested in that one.

True buttercreams taste like whipped sweet butter. Criscocream unfortunately has ruined many American palettes for true buttercream.

I use SMBC when I want a less sweet buttercream. That stuff is awesome. I can eat it straight out of the bowl. I usually add about 3/4 cup of melted white chocolate to mine and some raspberry puree....pure heaven

If you liked the consistency of the BC recipe you used, but just thought it was too sweet, try adding about a 1/2 tsp of lemon juice next time. Cream it in BEFORE you add any sugar. It will cut down on the "sweet factor".

Adding 1/4 t. popcorn salt, dissolved in the liquid in your recipe, cuts down on the sweetness. My recipe includes 4 lbs. confectioner's sugar and 1/4 t. popcorn salt so use 1/8 t. if your recipe only uses 2 lbs. of confectioner's sugar. The lemon sounds like a good idea, too- maybe sub lemon extract for part of the vanilla in the recipe.

I use a whole teaspoon of popcorn salt for every 2-lb bag pf powdered sugar.

Just so y'all know popcorn salt is the SAME thing as pickling salt, they just put it in a smaller container and charge more for it. You can find boxes of pickling salt near the other spices and cans of table salt and boxes of kosher and rock salt. Salt lasts forever, too, so you don't have to worry about it going bad. And if you have the popcorn salt container on hand, you can just refill it with the pickling salt.

When someone asks for a "not-too-sweet" American Buttercream, I use a recipe from CC called Doctored Buttercream Dream - in addition to the recipe, add 1tsp lemon juice (not extract) for a smooth flavour. It goes over really well for me. You probably won't like SMBC or IMBC, since you don't like the buttery taste, but they are real buttercreams and usually go over well with people who prefer a whipped cream frosting. Lastly, though a cream cheese frosting might give you the less-sweet flavour that you're looking for - cream cheese usually does not like fondant. Depending on the recipe, it may cause your fondant to wilt and sweat and sometimes just outright dissolve! Hope this helps!! Good luck!