Copycat Classic Bakery White Frosting Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What kind of frosting do most bakeries use? ›

1. Buttercream Frosting. Buttercream frostings rely on the main ingredient of butter and will be the most common type of frosting you will find in a bakery.

Whip the frosting with half a block of cream cheese and an extra cup of powdered sugar and a few drops of the appropriate flavoring extract. If you're using chocolate, add cocoa powder. If you want a richer buttery flavor add a few tablespoons of butter as well.

If you're wondering how to make buttercream white, like really vibrant white, the secret is actually to add color. To counteract that bit of yellow from the butter, add the slightest smidge of purple food coloring. Purple will neutralize the yellow tone and produce a buttercream that's a snowy white.

A-Two things set bakery-style icings apart from all homemade versions: the fat used and the addition of an Italian meringue. Unlike buttercream icings, which are made with real butter, many commercial products are made with a solid vegetable shortening, such as Crisco.

Italian Meringue Buttercream

This is considered one of the very difficult methods for making buttercream because the sugar syrup must be cooked to a specific temperature and then, while piping hot, poured into the whipped egg whites.

Icing, or frosting, is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings. It is used to coat or decorate baked goods, such as cakes. When it is used between layers of cake it is known as a filling.

Most commercial bakeries are using a buttercream made with shortening rather than butter, because it is more stable, especially if it gets warm. Sadly it has a dreadful mouthfeel and doesn't taste as good as frosting made with butter. If you cool your cupcakes properly before frosting them, the frosting won't melt.

Fondant: Fondant icing, on the other hand, is a traditional wedding favourite as it gives the cake a very smooth and polished appearance. Fondant is made from powdered sugar, corn syrup and water, melted together to form a thick paste.

The best way to get a pure white buttercream is to use shortening. It's what you see in most novelty grocery store cakes. A simple American buttercream made with shortening and powdered sugar.

The best way to distinguish frosting from buttercream is through the ingredients. While both contain powdered sugar, fat, flavouring and sometimes milk or water, frosting does not contain any butter whatsoever.

Why do you put vinegar in frosting? ›

Add white vinegar.

Although many do so to avoid cracks and to achieve a smooth appearance, I find just the tiniest bit — about 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon — also curbs the sweetness, allowing the wonderfully creamy mouth-feel of the icing to truly shine.

What kind of frosting do you use for vintage cakes? Vintage cakes are made with buttercream frosting using traditional piping techniques. Think buttercream swirls, lace, basketweave, and frills. Mix it all together in a variety of colors, patterns, and shapes and you get this delightful on-trend current style.

Royal icing is frosting that's made from confectioners' sugar, egg whites, and flavorings, and used in many ways to decorate cookies and cakes. The biggest difference between buttercream frosting and royal icing is texture-buttercream is creamy and soft; royal icing hardens to a candy-like texture.

Method #2: Color Correct with Purple Gel Food Coloring

It sounds crazy, but purple and yellow are opposites on the color wheel, so they cancel each other out. The purple gel food coloring will color-correct the yellow tint, leaving you with white frosting.

Buttercream is the most popular type of frosting largely because of its few ingredients and easy application. Classic buttercream requires beating butter into icing sugar until you reach a frosting consistency.

Royal icing also dries a bit harder than traditional icing, yet still holds a shiny finish. Many bakers love royal icing because it's easily customizable and can be made thinner or thicker depending on your specific needs.

By far the most common frosting category, buttercream is made from combining some type of fat, like butter, with sugar. It may also include other ingredients like eggs for a fluffier texture or cream, which is used to make this vanilla buttercream recipe extra rich and smooth.