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onceuponacake
Posted 19 Mar 2008 , 7:26pm
post #2 of 6
as with other too sweet buttercreams, i add a little salt to cut the sweetness..works great! 
alanahodgson
Posted 19 Mar 2008 , 7:38pm
post #3 of 6
Others have suggested using some cornstarch in place of some of your sugar. I've made Julie's Less Sweet Buttercream using the Sugarshack techniques (it incorporates flour into the icing). You can use all shortening instead of shortening/butter and it really is less sweet. I usually dissolve the salt in my warm liquid (Sugarshack's method). Truely, you can apply the sugarshack method to any powdered sugar based buttercream recipe and likely get very similar results.
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