I'm doing my first wedding cake in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping you all can help me! The buttercream frosting that I use and that the bride tasted is made with butter and powdered sugar.

The cake will be displayed at 1:30 and will not be served until 6 PM. I'm afraid that the frosting will start to make the cake mushy. Does anyone have any experience using this type of buttercream? Will it be ok? Or should I use a different buttercream recipe? The bride wanted a not-so-sweet buttercream so I didn't want to use one made with shortening.

Any suggestions would be so greatly appreciated!!!! Here is a picture of the cake....

A half butter, half shortening b/c recipe will hold up better than all butter in hot weather.

However, even an all butter b/c melting under a hot sun will not make the cake mushy....

And using shortening in a b/c recipe doesn't make the frosting sweet; it's the amount of powdered sugar used that does that.

Making a wedding cake with Sarah Phillips of baking911.com.:

http://tinyurl.com/y2kcl8

How to Bake and Decorate a Stacked/Tiered Cake:
(Overview of frostings by type, with recipes, how to on mmf, smoothing b/c and so much more.)

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopicp-4644113-.html

High Humidity B/C:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-4123-High-Humidity-Buttercream.html

(Hi-Ratio) Brite White B/C:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2375-Brite-White-Buttercream-Icing.html

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-5457743-.html
(See indydebi's post.)

Stressing and need reassurance:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-301803-.html

How to Cut Clean Cake Layers:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-56739-.html

HTH

P.S. It appears the cake picture is covered in fondant, not b/c.

I think Jan pretty much covered it...just want to say good luck!

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

My bride didn't like the taste of fondant so she wants this cake done in buttercream, not fondant. Fondant would have been soooo much easier!

To cut the sweetness of buttercream add a little popcorn salt.