This is a perfect recipe for Buttercream Frosting. It has a delicious taste and is much better than the store bought decorating frosting. It is a really stiff frosting to begin with, so if you need it a little softer add milk a 1\/4 teaspoon at a time until you reach the desired thickness. Remember, the softer it is, the less it will hold its shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buttercream Frosting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 cup shortening (not butter flavor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1\/2 tsp. clear vanilla extract<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1\/4 tsp. almond extract<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1\/4 tsp. butter flavor<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Tbsp. milk<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 lb. powdered sugar (about 4 cups)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 Tbsp. Meringue powder<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mix the shortening, vanilla extract, almond flavor, butter flavor, and milk with an electric mixer for 5 minutes on medium speed or until the shortening is smooth with no liquids remaining. In a separate bowl stir the meringue powder into the powdered sugar, then slowly add the powdered sugar into the shortening mix one cup at a time. The frosting will be thick. Make sure to keep the bowl covered with a damp cloth, or in a container with a tight lid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. In case you don\u2019t have Meringue powder; an emergency substitute for meringue powder is powdered egg whites. Replace meringue powder with 1 Tbsp. of powdered egg whites. It changes the texture, but won\u2019t make a difference if the frosting is being piped out of a frosting bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. If you don\u2019t have butter and almond flavor, you can use 1 tsp. of just clear vanilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a perfect recipe for Buttercream Frosting. It has a delicious taste and is much better than the store bought decorating frosting. It is a really stiff frosting to begin with, so if you need it a little softer add milk a 1\/4 teaspoon at a time until you reach the desired thickness. Remember, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shimmerblast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}