I want to make blue buttercream but there is 1 problem.The butter here is yellow,like the pic of my practice basket weave in the gallery.That's as pale as I can get it. Everytime I put blue in it,it goes green 
Has anyone got any ideas?
thankyou
Boy, that is yellow! They make a whitener - Wilton and Americolor. Can you get either of those? I have also heard to put a bit of violet in buttercream to offset the yellow (just a tiny bit). Wonder if you use the violet with the blue if it would work?
I personally don't like the taste of butter cream, I always use the wilton class icing, which is just crisco and is more white. For me personally i can't stand the taste of the butter. Lucky for me I haven't had any complaints using the class icing to ice my cakes. =)
hi
Isawyer, I've never seen Land O' Lakes butter here...I'm not sure if our health food shops sell butter either.
Tiffysma, I can buy Americolor and Wilton gels here online.I never thought that I could get a buttercream whitener.
luv2giggls, There are Wilton products that I can get but I'm unsure if the wilton class icing is one of those.
thankyou for all the replys and your help...
I will look into all of these...
hi sweatpea333
i had the same trouble with my buttercream but i brought the wiltons icing whitener from cake deco in melbourne, and it does whiten the icing
in my photos i have a pirate ship that is blue, i used a brand of food color called corella royal blue but you still need a lot of it.
hope this helps
kylie
You could use an all shortening icing recipe and if you want your icing to the have the flavor of buttercream use Wilton or another brand of butter flavoring/extract.
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