Cake Decorating Frosting With Crisco

8 tablespoons crisco.

Cake decorating frosting with crisco.

If you wish use half shortening and half unsalted butter. Beat shortening vanilla and salt in large bowl with mixer on high speed until fluffy. What may surprise you is how widely crisco frosting is still used in bakeries. Frosts a 2.

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. Beat together shortening powdered sugar vanilla meringue powder and salt until combined and smooth. 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 recipe came from a cake decorating class i took many years ago.

Why make frosting with crisco. This is the most important icing recipe you ll ever have. Tastes just like those wedding cake frostings we ve all eaten ultra creamy and sweet. Beat on high speed until smooth and creamy about 2 minutes.

Our vanilla buttercream frosting recipe is smooth and spreadable making it perfect for frosting cupcakes cakes and cookies. A frosting made with all or mostly shortening doesn t melt on the tongue the way i like. What you will need for crisco frosting ingredients. 2 3 cup crisco all vegetable shortening 1 teaspoons vanilla extract teaspoon salt 4 cups powdered sugar 5 6 tablespoons milk equipment.

8 tablespoons cocoa powder. Chocolate crisco frosting recipe. You can make it any flavor you like. This icing recipe is 1.

Thin to use as a frosting for the entire cake but know ahead of time that this recipe might well be considered too sweet. To prepare this frosting you will need a large bowl and an electric mixer. Add water until desired consistency. 8 tablespoons hot water coffee or milk.

It s quick and easy to make bright white for cake decorating and you can easily change it s consistency. It s so basic it makes the hassle of cake decorating so much easier. To make this recipe you will need. It was an easy way to make icing when you didn t have any butter available.

Pair with a basic yellow cake for consistency or a chocolate layer cake for a bit. This frosting leaves a tell tale gummy cloyingly sweet residue. For me this isn t the overall taste i m looking for. Crisco frosting was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

Beat on low speed gradually adding milk until evenly blended. My grandma called this wedding cake frosting because it is often used on wedding cakes.