Buttercream Frosting

What makes a buttercream frosting? A ton of butter and a boat load of confectioners’ sugar.

Buttercream is a fantastic frosting choice when you want to decorate. When you’re piping decorations on a cake, you need a frosting with a firm consistency that will hold it’s shape. And buttercream excels at this!

In fact, it’s my go-to frosting for all my decorating needs. It’s super, rich since it uses a lot more butter than other frosting recipes, and super sweet because it calls for a ton of confectioners’ sugar. But it’s so thick that it stays exactly where you put it and it pairs well with just about every dessert under the sun.

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I made this recipe for the first time when I made my Strawberry Lemon Cake. And man did it leave an impression! Now, buttercream is wickedly sweet- which you already know if you looked at the recipe. But it’s number one super power is decorating. Which I took full advantage of with Strawberry Lemon Cake I made.

I used this buttercream recipe to make some really cool rosettes that I put on top of the cake for decoration. Admittedly, they weren’t the best looking frosting flowers out there. But, for a first attempt, them came out good enough.

Another cool thing I did with that recipe is I customized the frosting. I added other ingredients to the buttercream to change the flavor. How? I simply made the buttercream in my stand mixer and then divvied it up into two smaller bowls. To one I added lemon; to the other bowl I added strawberry. (What a surprise, given the name of the cake, huh?)

Are you ready to DIY? Excellent.