Cake Decorating Frosting With Crisco

To prepare this frosting you will need a large bowl and an electric mixer.

Cake decorating frosting with crisco.

Why make frosting with crisco. It s quick and easy to make bright white for cake decorating and you can easily change it s consistency. Beat on high speed until smooth and creamy about 2 minutes. This crisco chocolate frosting recipe is smooth fluffy and has a deep chocolate flavor.

8 tablespoons hot water coffee or milk. 2 3 cup crisco all vegetable shortening 1 teaspoons vanilla extract teaspoon salt 4 cups powdered sugar 5 6 tablespoons milk equipment. Add water until desired consistency. What may surprise you is how widely crisco frosting is still used in bakeries.

This icing recipe is 1. This frosting leaves a tell tale gummy cloyingly sweet residue. This buttercream can also be stiffened to hold its shape for decorating treats with buttercream flowers or piped messages. My grandma called this wedding cake frosting because it is often used on wedding cakes.

A frosting made with all or mostly shortening doesn t melt on the tongue the way i like. It is an excellent frosting for wedding and birthday cakes and has the perfect consistency to use with a pastry bag tube for writing or making colored roses leaves or other decorations. This makes enough to frost 24 cupcakes a 13 x 9 cake or a 2 layer cake using 8 inch or 9 inch round cake pans. Beat together shortening powdered sugar vanilla meringue powder and salt until combined and smooth.

Pair with a basic yellow cake for consistency or a chocolate layer cake for a bit. Frosts a 2. This recipe came from a cake decorating class i took many years ago. Beat shortening vanilla and salt in large bowl with mixer on high speed until fluffy.

Crisco frosting was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Tastes just like those wedding cake frostings we ve all eaten ultra creamy and sweet. Beat on low speed gradually adding milk until evenly blended. It was an easy way to make icing when you didn t have any butter available.

Thin to use as a frosting for the entire cake but know ahead of time that this recipe might well be considered too sweet. If you wish use half shortening and half unsalted butter. Chocolate crisco frosting recipe. You can make it any flavor you like.

For me this isn t the overall taste i m looking for. Wilton icing recipes feature easy to follow instructions and all the ingredients you need to make the best icing for decorating and glazing cakes cupcakes cookies and other delicious treats. This is the most important icing recipe you ll ever have. To make this recipe you will need.

It s so basic it makes the hassle of cake decorating so much easier. 8 tablespoons crisco.