Easy Buttercream Frosting Recipe

hey sugar geeks liz here today i'm going to show you how to make my famous easy buttercream frosting this buttercream comes together in less than 10 minutes it only takes five ingredients and it is the most amazing buttercream you've ever tasted it's coming up next on the sugar geek show okay so we are making easy buttercream emphasis on easy super simple it all starts with pasteurized egg whites and you might be asking liz why egg whites what's pasteurized where do i get them [Laughter] pasteurized is literally heat treated so if you think about milk milk comes out of the cow raw and then they heat treat it and then it's safe to drink you can do the same thing to eggs so typically when you make like a meringue based uh buttercream like swiss meringue you have to heat the eggs pasteurize them with the sugar whip it into a meringue let it cool add the butter makes delicious buttercream but is not so easy so we skip that whole step and we go straight to the pasteurized part pasteurized egg whites will you say pasteurized on the box but i guarantee you if they're in a box they are pasteurized these come in the egg section usually on the top shelf so now all we have to do is literally just mix all these ingredients together i don't even bring the egg whites to room temperature they're just straight out of the fridge so easy and you go and then we're going to add powdered sugar because we're not heating the eggs in the sugar we have to use powdered sometimes people say that they can taste the grittiness of the sugar i have never experienced that so i don't know if there's just some other less fine type of powdered sugar out there or maybe it's just not dissolving all the way so go ahead and just mix your egg whites and your powdered sugar together for like a minute before you start adding in butter i'm using my bosch mixer which holds quite a bit of frosting but if you have a kitchenaid mixer you can totally do the same thing if you have a hand mixer you can use it too i'm going to go ahead and add in my salt and my vanilla so i don't forget to add it in later you can switch out vanilla for any other type of extract strawberry lemon almond whatever you want so it might look like there's a lot of sugar in this but there is really not very much sugar in this at all like it's not sweet so you don't really want to reduce the sugar you can increase the sugar if you want it to be sweeter but you can't reduce it alright so this is done mixing now i'm going to start adding in my butter in small chunks you can replace this butter with margarine with vegan butter with vegetable shortening i cannot guarantee that the taste will be the same but you can switch out other types of butter or shortening depending on what your preferences are so we're going to whip this on high until it's light and fluffy and i'm using a bosch mixer so this is going to whip up incredibly fast but if you are using a kitchenaid mixer it might take a little bit longer to fully get to that whipped up creamy stage the only way to test to see if this is done is to taste it if it tastes like butter keep whipping this right here you might be tempted to say oh this is done you know it looks pretty much like buttercream but i'm going to taste it honestly it tastes pretty good but it does have like a slight tinge of butter flavor so i'm just going to keep whipping this if it starts to look curdled or broken you can remove one cup of the buttercream melt it into the microwave till it's just melted like maybe 30 seconds whip that in and that little bit of warm butter will make everything come together just do not throw it away do you know how expensive butter is melt down a little bit whip it up once it tastes like ice cream it's done and now our buttercream is buttercream i am using the whisk attachment to make this light and fluffy but if you wanted to kind of remove these bubbles you would have to switch to the paddle attachment and then mix it on low for like 10 minutes or so um that doesn't work so great with the bosch because it is so big and you need your bowl to be slightly full that's something i usually only do when i'm like making a professional cake and like for a wedding cake and i really care about there being bubbles in the surface but for just like the beginner you really don't need to worry about that another trick for getting your buttercream perfect because we're sugar geeks right you can add a very tiny drop of purple food coloring and i mean tiny and what that's going to do is counteract this yellow tinge from the butter all butter has a little bit of a yellow tinge and then i'm also going to add about a tablespoon of white food coloring and that is going to make this super white all right honestly that probably was just a tiny bit too much purple i usually make much more buttercream than this so i add one drop to probably like a double batch super silky very very light has a very like ice cream kind of flavor so compared to american buttercream this is not as sweet it's not going to crust on you but it is really great for piping on cupcakes it's great for putting underneath fondant i mean honestly you can use this buttercream for pretty much anything as far as how stable it is in the heat it's not quite as stable as like an italian buttercream but it's definitely not as loose as like a cream cheese buttercream so it really is just kind of like an all-around good buttercream to use for general cake decorating or even professional cake decorating liz merrick how long does this buttercream last oh i'm so glad you asked so this buttercream is very stable at room temperature you can leave this really on the countertop for two days if you had to but i keep it in the refrigerator if i'm not going to use it but let's say i was going to frost my cake tomorrow just leave this on the countertop you don't need to refrigerate it or freeze it or do anything crazy like that the reason is because there's so much butter and sugar in this it kind of acts as its own preservation and nothing bad can grow in there it's it's amazing i'm telling you baking is science if you don't need to use this for like a week go ahead and just put it in the refrigerator bring it out when you're ready to use it and re-whip it do that trick where you take a cup and melt it and then add it back in and it will bring it back to that original super creamy consistency if you're not going to use it for a long time you can go ahead and freeze it in freezer bags for really forever but we always say like six months you know because that seems like a good idea so i would say two weeks in the fridge six months in the freezer two days room temperature i get a lot of questions of people asking me how to color this buttercream if there's any special technique honestly there's not if you're going to be making super dark colors then yeah it's you're gonna you're gonna have to take a lot of uh food coloring you're gonna have to melt it down a little bit and then remix it if you wanna learn more about that check out my neon buttercream cake because that kind of goes over that whole process but if you just want like some pastel colors all you need is a little bit of gel food coloring electric pink one of my favorite colors makes a beautiful nice soft pink color add a little dot and i want a nice soft pink just mix that up with your spatula that's it nothing complicated so that's it guys that is how you make my super easy buttercream frosting if you enjoyed this tutorial go ahead and hit that subscribe button and i will see you guys next week bye you

Channel: Sugar Geek Show

Views: 398,625

Keywords: cake, sugar geek show, tutorial, lizzo marek, cake decorating, buttercream frosting, buttercream icing, how to, frosting with buttercream, how to make frosting, vanilla buttercream, cake frosting, cake decorating ideas, buttercream frosting for cake, buttercream frosting for cupcakes, cake decorating videos, cake decorating for beginners, best ever buttercream frosting, creamy buttercream, meringue buttercream, perfect buttercream, easy buttercream, buttercream recipe, scratch

Id: 4CFLe1LiHbQ

Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 07 2020