i was talking with my sister last night, who needs a welcome baby cake for friday. she said she wanted a simple, one layer marble cake with buttercream frosting. well, i use the buttercream dream recipe and love it (i mean, i can eat that stuff by the spoonful!) she says it's too sweet. i have searched the cc site high and low and no one tells you how sweet their frostings are. i did find a recipe that says to use 2 sticks unsalted butter instead of half salted and half unsalted, which i thought i would try, but then the more i thought about it, the more i realized, wouldn't using unsalted butter make it sweeter?
can anyone help? i don't want to make a whole batch of frsoting to find out it's not what i wanted. so can anyone steer me to a recipe that's a little less sweet than buttercream dream? or maybe to alter the recipe a little to make it less sweet?
thanks so much!
I alway use, 1/2 cups butter, 1/2 cups crisco, 2tsp flavoring, 4 cups powdered sugar, 2 tbs milk. It does not matter which butter you use. I add salt, one good pinch for salted butter, and a little more for unsalted. Just keep testing it until you like it. I think that the salt cuts the sweet and you can taste your floavoring more. I thin my bc with corn syrup, for crumb coat. Then if I need it thiner for frosting then I use milk. In two seperate bowls. Hope that helps.
thanks ali. are there any other ideas floating around out there? just to have a few more options?
Try Julies less sweet butter cream on this site. I didn't think that it was sweet at all.HTH
MOST PEOPLE HERE SAY THE ICING IS TOO SWEET TOO. I USE THE RECIPE FOR WHIPPED CREAM BUTTERCREAM. NOT TOO SWEET AT ALL!
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