Anyone Use The Whimsical Bakehouse House Buttercream?
Decorating By danijus Updated 2 Oct 2011 , 10:17pm by pj22
I have made it a few times and it is SOOOOOO tasty! It doesn't crust so you can't Viva paper towel it. I used the hot knife trick with ok results. Here is one cake I made using it
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I used it on this mini tiered cake and it was impossible to smooth, the cake being so small and lightweight, so I just made little spikes!
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Give it a try and post your results. You will LOVE the taste. I left it unrefrigerated with good results. HTH.
I use this as my whipped frosting as it is less sweet, light and fluffy. It does not crust but is easy to smooth. It is delish.
It is " THE BEST BUTTERCREAM EVER" in my opinion. It does not crust over at all but the flavor can not be BEAT. I refrigerated my cake until an hour before I served it to let the buttercream soften a bit because you use butter in the recipe and it does get hard when refrigerated like normal butter. So just take out your cake an hour before you serve it to get the buttercream to room temperature. Also it makes a very big difference to use high ratio shorteniong in the recipe rather than regular olsd crisco, trust me on this one. I have never recieved so many cpompliments when I make this buttercream. And its not to sweet. Let me know if you make it how you like it.I will never make another buttercream recipe again unless I need it to be crusted over/
I use this icing exclusively.All my customers love it!! It does not crust and yes it can be refridgerated.It is way less sweeter than most buttercreams!It takes awhile to get used to the non crusting thing but it smooths like a dream and reminds me of true whipped bakery icing .
Was just wondering where i might find the recipe to the house buttercream. Would love to try it. Thank you
Patti
I was just about to ask the same question
Thanks for the info. Can this be made to be a chocolate buttercream too?
Just add soft dark chocolate ganache.
Here is the recipe!!!
Whimsical Bake House Buttercream
6 Cups Confectioners' Sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 cup boiling water (3/4 cup on hot days)
2 3/4 cup Hi-Ratio or regular vegetable shortening
6 ounces (1 1/2 sticks) butter
I love this recipe as well! I hate having leftovers because I attack it with a spoon! I made it chocolate by adding 2 oz of melted chocolate chips per cup of frosting (I think this is what they said to do in the book). Yum!
The Whimsical Bake House Cookbook is a great resource.
That said, the House Butter Cream recipe was not exactly what I was looking for when it comes to taste. The initial mouth feel is great when the frosting first hits my mouth, but it tastes and feels like a true Bakery icing. (Greasy at the back of your palate.)
I used this the other day to ice a cake and was amazed by it's amazing texture beneath the knife. It is a dream to use.
I feel so torn. Like trying to talk myself into liking it when eaten because of it's merits as a cake icing.
I guess I will keep looking. I likely can not have both amazing texture and flavor. Or maybe I'll find it if I keep looking.
I was curious and tried this recipe a couple weeks ago. I was not prepared for how "whipped" it turned out. It would be great if that's what you're going for but it's like a whipped cream only in buttercream. I was doing a zebra fondant decor and it was a nightmare to not get the icing all over the black pieces, unlike I've ever experienced. The flavor was ok I felt it needed more flavoring, it just tasted like powdered sugar to me.
I moved on to Epicurious's Decorator Buttercream and really like it.
I made the most delicious crusting buttercream of of Paula Deens on her food network recipe site it calls for vanilla coffee cream powder and to add water to it it worked so well and I got amazing comments...it works amazing under fondant and the taste is beyond delicious...I have only been using that recipe since I first tried it! I will look to see if I can post it...I have tried almost every buttercream and this recipe is perfect and delicious!
pj22 try this one, it's the best I've come across-
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Decorators-Buttercream-Icing-109260
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