American Buttercream

Contrivance

• 1 pound butter, softened

• 1 tablespoon true vegetable shortening (equivalent to Crisco)

• 2 pounds powdered sugar

• Pinch of kosher salt

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 2 teaspoons lemon zest, for flavoring (no longer major)

• 2 tablespoons milk, no longer major

1. Add butter and vegetable shortening to bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a budge attachment. Beat on low recede except soft and modern, stopping as soon as to scrape down sides and bottom of bowl, about 1 minute. Add powdered sugar and combine on low to mix. (Duvet bowl with a towel when first mixing to lead sure of a huge mess.) The aggregate will look crumbly firstly set up, nonetheless will arrive at the side of more mixing.

2. Expand recede on mixer to excessive and combine except buttercream is fluffy and pale, stopping as soon as to scrape down sides and bottom of bowl, about 2 minutes. The longer you combine the buttercream, the whiter this may well well turn out to be. Beat in salt and vanilla or lemon zest, if the use of. In the event you make a selection, add milk to buttercream, 1/2 teaspoon at a time, except buttercream is soft and spreadable. Buttercream may well well simply additionally be stored airtight at room temperature for as much as every week. Mix as soon as more in stand mixer the use of a budge attachment sooner than the use of.