I found a website or blog of a fellow cake decorator. It is www.thatreallyfrostsme.com She has under recipes a neat recipe for butterceam I am going to try. Check it out and tell me if you think this sounds good.

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I found out you have to type it in and then it works.

Do you mean her "favorite frosting"? That recipe doesn't sound appealing to me at all. I wouldn't try it but everyone has their own taste and style.

I believe Frostine is a participant here, so perhaps she will see this and chime in. I haven't come across a frosting recipe that includes sour cream before, but I'm always open to new ideas. Will you let us know if you try it and what you think?

It's interesting. I've never seen a bc that has sour cream in it. Who's gonna test it LOL*????

Yea, who's going to test it, lol

I would also like to know if anyone is interested in doing a taste test!! If so, please let us know how it goes! I would volunteer but I am taking a sugar break I need to reaquaint myself with the treadmill for a little while

The recipe sounds interesting, though

I am definitely going to try this! My mom used to use Duncan Hines Sour Cream Chocolate frosting on all our birthday cakes and it was the best. I haven't seen it for years and it is the reason I don't like store bought frosting cuz it's just not the same as I remember cuz this was so yummy! I can't wait!

I think I might have to try this one!! I'm assuming it may have a "tang" to it like cream cheese frosting does.

I,ve had this site saved in my favorites for some time. Haven,t tried it, but i think it sounds really good. I also have a chocolate one saved using sour cream. That sounds good to me also. I will just have to break down and try these.

Ok brave ladies.......after you try them please let us know how they taste, frost, do they crust well, set well......if any of you try covering w fondant that would be awesome to know too!! I'm not gonna push it though since I'm too chicken to even attempt the recipe LOL

HMMMMM is this the start of a bc scratch off hahaha

Hi everybody. I'm Frostine from That Really Frosts Me. I'm sure some of you have noticed that the frosting recipe in question is one that I originally found here at CC. I'll definately be watching this topic to see what the verdict is on this frosting. I love it. I've even made some variations on flavors that are very good.

I top some of my cheesecakes in a sour cream topping and it is incredible.

I think Bronwen Webber makes her b/c , with buttermilk. I assume it would take like that. Gotta try that one too.
The chocolate sour cream recipe i have, comes from epicurious dot com

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=433403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

I think Bronwen Webber makes her b/c , with buttermilk. I assume it would take like that. Gotta try that one too.
The chocolate sour cream recipe i have, comes from epicurious dot com

http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=433403&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0

I also do a sour cream topping on cheese cake that is delicious! I have also used sour cream as a glaze before that worked really well. Sounds good to me!

O.K. ladies I tried this recipe tonight. I used it on a pineapple cake with lemon curd filling. It was for a masonic lodge meeting of my husbands. The frosting mixed up smooth, you can't taste the sour cream( or least I could'nt ) and it crust enough to do the viva method on it. It was not as sweet as regular buttercream, I liked it and will probably use it again. btw all the lodge members gave it a thumbs up too.

Well I made this frosting today and I love it! You really can't taste the sour cream but at the same time there is the teeniest, tiniest little extra something that most people wouldn't be able to quite put their finger on.
I added vanilla bean to mine and definately will use it again!

I'll try most anything once -- it sounds good. My concern though is the sour cream at room temp for any length of time -- she says it's okay but I'm still skeptical.

I also found this recipe from someone here on CC. I was skeptical at first but I wanted to experiment. Now, it's the only bc I use. You cannot taste the sour cream at all. It is less sweet than regular bc. I have never had a problem with leaving it at room temperature. But I beat mine for about 5 minutes after each addition and I use a combination of vanilla, almond extract and butter flavor. Everyone loves it because it's sweet, but not too sweet.

Why was everyone so worried about using sour cream in frosting? Heck, we put shortening in frosting and it's disgusting.

The sugar is in such large quantity in the recipw that it acts as a preservative.

Ok I'm gonna give this a try as soon as I'm able to get off bedrest....hopefully Monday!! Thanks ladies for posting such specifics soooo helpful!!!

phenomonon of osmosis I love the way that sounds.

Bt the way, I didn't mean worried from a food safety standpoint, everyone seemed to be worried about the taste. That's what my comment was aimed at.

Jen that's so informative thank you!!

I was mainly worries about flavor, screw makin people sick lol jk
!! And yes so true we use crisco and hello disgusting!!

Many years ago, I use to add sour cream to my American buttercream. It was great! It really help to cut the sweetness of the frosting. Think of Ambrosia salad which has marshmallows and sour cream as ingredients. It does not taste like sour cream and fruit. The sour cream just takes the edge off the sweetness of the marshmallows.