I know this has been posted somewhere and I have been looking and cannot find it. I usually make BC with butter - but the butter smell gets me sick. I think if I tried it with shortening I wouldn't get sick... What was the ingredient to use that cuts that greasy taste in your mouth from that type of BC? Was it lemon? I totally forgot..

sorry - not sure. you can use hi-ratio shortening or Sweet-tex in place of Crisco.

Deb

Try using a little bit of Coffeemate Creamer- the powder kind-.......I've done that before and it helped.

I recently did an all-crisco BC from on here, the White as Snow recipe, and I liked it enough, and my kids tasted it and loved it (they would...) I detest crisco and won't feed it to my family, but a recent bride insisted on white, and the cake had to sit outside uncovered, so I went ahead. I tried the Snow White BC too. Try a half batch of both and see which one you prefer. I used less almond flavor in both, because I don't like almond, so I substituted extra butter flavor. One has lemon juice, one doesn't; both use meringue powder in different ways. Experiment and see...

I use the snow white buttercream from this site, I use 1 teaspoon almond and 1 teaspoon clear vanilla and 3/4 teaspoon popcorn salt. (I think it is the salt that helps) Make sure you get the UNFLAVORED popcorn salt - it is very fine grained and works perfectly. This recipe is my regular recipe and gets rave reviews, everyone loves it.

There is a product called Brite White that cuts the greasiness. It's some sort of icing base. Most cake supply stores carry it I think.

I use all crisco in my buttercream because of the weather here and I don't get that greasy texture at all. The trick I think is to beat the shortening with the vanilla and water really well so that it really poofs up and gets a lot of air added. Then I add in the powder sugar and I don't think it feel/tastes greasy at all.

I also use all shortning in my BC. No greasy taste! I think it might have to do with how long you mix it. I mix a full two minutes on #8 on my kitchenaid.

I was told when I first started decorating to cream the shortening with the flavoring for 15 minutes using my Kitchenaid before adding the powdered sugar then mix just well enough to incorporate.

That's how I actually do it. Never have had a complaint about greasy frosting except the one time I forgot to mix it that long.

don't you get air bubbles if you mix that long?

Never had a problem with it. I'm only mixing the shortening and flavoring. I don't mix the powdered sugar in it that long.

I probably mix mine about 5 or six minutes, maybe 10 tops, but this is before you add the powdered sugar, once you add the sugar you only mix long enough to incorporate the sugar and I haven't had any problems with airbubbles. I've never had anyone complain about my icing.