What To Use To Make Bc A Lil Less Sweet
Decorating By analiciaestrada Updated 5 Feb 2007 , 5:56pm by analiciaestrada
Hey everyone can someone please tell me what ingredient to use to make the BC less sweet. I use the butter and shortening same. Do I add salt??
Help please!
I put just a little yogurt in. about 1 teapsoon or two for one recipes worth. Vuts down on the sugary taste alot. 
I use milk and almond flavoring- thats the number one comment I get...Its not sugary like the grocery store icing.
I find that the b/c recipes that have Dream Whip, flour, cream cheese or whipping cream seem less sweet and most importantly don't have that greasy mouth feel.
I think hi-ratio shortening also makes a less sweet frosting.
These recipes seem less sweet to me:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2019-Whipped-Cream-Buttercream-Frosting.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2006-Dreamy-Cream.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-901-Whipped-Cream-Frosting.html
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-2375-Brite-White-Buttercream-Icing.html
HTH
I have tried all sorts of things to get less sweet icing. I have tried more shortening/butter to powdered sugar, salt, and whipping the icing more to make it less dense. All that did was create a bunch of air bubbles.
Here is what finally worked for me. When making 3 batches of bc icing at a time (wilton 1/2 and 1/2 recipe - but using hi-ratio shortening), I use only 2 tsp of my butter vanilla flavoring instead of the 3 that is calls for (each batch using 1 tsp each), and it was noticably less sweet. I know my flavoring doesn't have sugar in it, but it has a sweet flavor.
Give it a try. It worked for me.
THanks guys I will definately try yalls tips!
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