i have tried several recipes for buttercream that have a cooked sugar syrup, and everytime i end up with a buttery soupy mess. I whip the whites, add the syrup and whip it until it's cool, it looks good and everything is fine until i add the butter. then it gets very liquidy and i keep whipping it but it never comes back up! what am i doing wrong?
Are you cutting the butter into little pieces and SLOWLY adding them?
Keep beating it....it doesn't look like it now but it will happen and when it does you'll want to kiss the bowl!
I'll never forget the first time I tried making it and I thought it was a big gobbly mess, but eventually it did turn into beautiful butter cream.
yes i am cutting the butter into small peices and i add them in slowly. How long do i keep beating it, like 5 min or 20?, because i've beat it for a while hopeing it would finaly come together but it never did.
Thanks everyone! i used the IMBC recipe posted by Queequeg, except i used meringue powder instead of the egg whites and it truned out great. I think part of my problem before was not letting the butter come to room temp.
You can use cold butter. Lots of us do. Are you using a stand mixer or a hand-held mixer? If found that if using a hand-held mixer the best thing to do is to put the bowl of meringue in an ice water bath while beating it (after adding all the syrup) and while beating in the butter. This brings the buttercream together much faster.
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