The only way I know is to use all shortening and no butter.
I have a recipe on the site that's called Decorator's Icing. This is what I use for pure white icing.
I use clear vanilla, almond. lemon & orange and all Crisco in my regular icing. Only clear vanilla & almond for more of a traditional icing.
ummmm....how does that happen? I am very very interested! do you know where the thread is?
I'm a great believer in the white food coloring. Wilton makes one, but it's kind of expensive. There are others, including white coloring for airbrush (which was the first one I used) and white powder. It's all titanium dioxide - the only difference is the carrier (or lack of in the case of the powder). A couple of teaspoons and your icing will pop white.
I always make a half butter/half Crisco icing and I use Wilton's white coloring on it. If you're planning on making the icing into another color, such as yellow/orange/green, it doesn't have to start white. But you must start with white-white if you're going to try and color blue -- I ended up throwing away a whole bowl of turquoise frosting once! Talk about learning the hard way!
All criso texture vs. 1/2 butter ? Do you mean taste or decorating differances?? or something else?
Texture for decorating I don't see any diff. I have never mad my particular recipe with butter - as to other butter recipes I think it may have a little greasier taste but a little extra salt takes care of it I think.
I like adding butter to my buttercream. I think it just tastes better then all crisco. I found using Land O Lakes unsalted butter works good. It doesnt turn out ivory, I think it is white enough not to worry about adding any coloring to make it whiter.
I'll try out y'all's suggestions!
for a long time I've used Wilton Meringue powder. It's alittle expensive, but it has the recipe for snow white buttercream. I used it for years. But the bigger the cakes got the more expensive it was. It tastes really good, though. And it colors real well. It also crusts up pretty quick so you have to keep it coverd. Hope that helps.
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