Hi Everyone -

I need to make a 3D duck cake for my co-worker's baby shower next week. She is allergic to crisco though so I need to find a buttercream recipe that is Crisco free but still stiff enough for piping the duck so the frosting doesn't just slide down the sides.

Please help!

-Kara

I use an all butter BC and just use less liquid to keep it as stiff as I need. I don't like BC with shortening - it tastes artificial (just my preference).

How will you make the cake without vegetable oil?

to stiffen up bc, just add more ps.
my recipe is 2:1 ps to butter - so 10 oz ps to 5 oz butter.
xx

How do you make a butter buttercream that is white?

white butter cream - buy the whitest butter you can find, and cream it to hell, use clear flavourings. personally, id tell the customer the price of real butter is an off white colour.
xx

Being allergic to Crisco is very strange sounding.

I would definitely look deeper into her "allergy"....is she allergic to all things vegetable? Crisco has atleast 4 ingredients, which **could** be in other things on the cake.

I have some Crisco sticks and the ingredients are Soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, partially hydrogenated palm and soybean oils, mono and diglicerides, TBHQ and Citric Acid (antioxidants).

Check to see **specifically** what is she allergic to...and do you need to be careful that ingredient is not in you kitchen...and how severe the allergy is.

Once someone says "ALLERGY" you don't want to mess around....for your OWN benefit and THEIRS.