I too, followed other reviews and substituted half the butter for the shortening. I also used popcorn salt. It is a finer grain of salt and mixers better.Also, I added 2 tbls of merigue pwder to it to stabilize the whipped cream, i thoughtit would make it more stiff to pipe borders and flowers. I did end up using about 7 ounces of the whipping cream. I did find the frosting on the sweet side. Next time I will adjust the powdered sugar. It spread like a dream and I frosted the cake with little effort. But when it came to piping borders and flowers, I found I had to stiffen up the frosting a bit by adding even more sugar to it. Overall, a good frosting that I would use again, I would just tweak it a bit. Of course, I diddnt follow the original recipe and that could be why I had the results I did. Butter is alot softer than shortening. Everyone loved this frosting.
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