Buttercream Recipie

Here you go Michelle :-)

Basic Buttercream:
4 cups powdered sugar (1 lb or half bag)
1 T Meringe powder
2 T water
1 cup shortning (or all butter or half butter and half crisco)
1 tsp flavoring (vanilla or butter)

Cream shortning, flavoring and water with mixer till creamy. Add meringe powder and powdered sugar and mix till creamy. If it is too stiff add 1 tsp liquid at a time till the desired consistancy. The longer you mix the more whipped it gets.

Lime Cream Chese Frosting:
4 cups powdered sugar (1 lb)
1 T meringe powder
1 8 oz package of cream cheese
2 T lime juice (fresh squeezed or Real Lime brand is best)
1 tsp vanilla

Cream cream cheese, lime juice and vanilla till smooth. Mix in powder sugar and meringe powder till creamy.

Coco Frosting:
4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 T meringe powder
1 cup butter
2 T milk
1 tsp vanilla

Sift the powdered sugar and cocoa together with meringe powder. Cream butter, milk and vanilla together and add cocoa and sugar and mix till creamy. I bet if you wanted to substitute 1/4 c peanut butter and 3/4 c butter for the butter that would be yummy too.


** You dont have to use meringe powder for non decorating purposes.