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Cake with Buttercream Decorating Frosting Recipe

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This sweet creamy frosting made the real butter is easy to blend together and holds its shape nicely when used to decorate a special layer cake.

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Cake with Buttercream Decorating Frosting Recipe

Prep: 1 hour

Yield: 10-12 Servings

45 15 60

Ingredients

1 package cake mix of your choice (regular size)
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup shortening
12 cups confectioners' sugar (about 3 pounds)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 to 1 cup milk
Blue, yellow and green gel, paste or liquid food coloring

Directions

Prepare and bake cake according to package directions for two 9-in. round baking pans. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
In a large bowl, cream the butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla, salt and enough milk to achieve spreading consistency.
Place 1/4 cup frosting each in three small bowls; tint one blue, one yellow and one green. Set aside 2-1/4 cups of remaining frosting for basket weave decoration and shell border. Spread remaining frosting between layers and over top and sides of cake.
To decorate, cut a small hole in the corner of pastry or plastic bag; insert medium basket weave tip. Fill the bag with reserved white frosting. Decorate sides of cake using basket weave pattern (see diagrams at right). Change to medium star tip to pipe shell border along bottom and top edges of cake.
For writing, use medium round tip and blue frosting to pipe desired greeting off-center on top of cake. Use medium round tip to top pipe green vines around writing. Switch to medium leaf tip to pipe green leaves along vines. Use small flower tip to pipe yellow and blue flowers along vines. Leftover frosting can be frozen for up to 3 months. Yield: 10-12 servings.

Editor's Note: Use of a coupler ring will allow you to easily change pastry tips for different designs.

Originally published as Cake with Buttercream Decorating Frosting in Quick Cooking May/June 2001, p57

Sweet White Wine

Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.

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Reviewed on Nov. 14, 2011 by s_pants

I made this dairy free by substituting Crisco butter sticks for the butter and using soy milk. It turned out fine and this is going to be my go-to decorating frosting.

Reviewed on Dec. 23, 2009 by sladphie

This frosting is wonderful, and we use it several times throughout the year for birthday cakes. We also make 1/3 recipe to decorate cutout cookies at Christmastime!

Reviewed on Jan. 31, 2009 by cdcrane

add 1 tsp butter extract

1/2 tsp almond extract

subsitute milk for water and add 1/2 cup powdered creamer