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?

Health food stores sell all-white butter. I've also read that you can whip butter for a short time and it will then turn white. Maybe add white coloring at this time, too? Someone here said that Land O' Lakes butter is whiter; maybe whip that?

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

I learned a good trick from the Whimsical Bake house book. Use Candy Coloring. The Wilton Candy Blue was perfect for me. The candy colors come out way more vibrant and I don't think you have to use that much.

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.