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Decorator Frosting I
SUBMITTED BY:
Jean Higginbotham
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"This is a pure white wedding cake frosting. You can double the recipe if you have a sturdy mixer. Add milk according to purpose; you need less if you are making flowers or borders than if you are just covering a cake. Remove what you need for decorating before you thin the rest down for frosting."
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1 cup shortening
4 cups confectioners' sugar
4 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
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Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Beat on low speed of electric mixer until well blended and very smooth.
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Reviewed on Sep. 3, 2003 by SLBRYAN
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Sep. 3, 2003
I made this today to decorate a birthday cake and I am very pleased with the results. This is teriffic for making flowers, borders, and writing on cakes. I separated it into 3 bowls and added a different food coloring to each one...I made pink and yellow for flowers and green for leaves. This should be a thick frosting in order to pipe it out of the different decorating tips. I would not thin it down to frost an entire cake...it's very sweet in large amounts!
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I made this today to decorate a birthday cake and I am very pleased with the results. This is...
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Reviewed on Sep. 16, 2002 by DCROSE76
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DCROSE76
Sep. 16, 2002
This is the decorating frosting recipe that I learned when I first started decorating cakes. I like the almond flavoring but you can also use butter flavoring if you prefer the butter flavor. Actually butter can be used rather than the shortning but then you will not have a true white frosting that decorators want. I have also substituted any number of flavorings depending on what I wanted although almond is my personal favorite. You have to remember this is made for DECORATING, more so than the actual flavor.
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Reviewed on Jun. 10, 2006 by
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Ji Eun
Jun. 10, 2006
I used this frosting to make a wedding cake that I entered in a dessert contest at my school, and I won. :) It tasted good, and it worked nicely to cover the cake and also to make borders and decorations. I used 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup shortening instead of one whole cup of shortening. Also, I think 1 1/2 tsp of almond ex. was too much, and I reduced it to 1 tsp in the second batch. Thank you for this recipe! :D
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Reviewed on Oct. 14, 2003 by DALLEN429
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DALLEN429
Oct. 14, 2003
Fabulous icing for cake decorating! My daughter was decorating a cake for her 4H project to enter in our county fair. We needed a really good icing that handled well for frosting the cake and doing borders, flowers etc. This was the best one we tried. Thanks!
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Fabulous icing for cake decorating! My daughter was decorating a cake for her 4H project to...
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Reviewed on Jan. 11, 2008 by
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Jan. 11, 2008
This was exactly what I wanted it to be. I doubled the recipe and used half Crisco, half butter, and left out the almond extract (since I ran out). I used it to ice and build a princess castle and it was declared the best birthday cake that anybody ever saw! The flavor was really good too, unlike most bakery cakes anymore. Thank you so much, I'll use this one a lot for decorating.
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This was exactly what I wanted it to be. I doubled the recipe and used half Crisco, half...
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Reviewed on Nov. 16, 2006 by
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Samantha
Nov. 16, 2006
This is the best frosting I have ever made. I plan to use this many many more times! It's easy to make, tastes wonderful, and you can flavor it with anything! And it's perfect for decorating, like it should be. I had made a Mountain Dew Cake for my boyfriend for his birthday, and wanted a different frosting than the one provided (he doesn't like coconut). I used this for both frosting AND decorating. Instead of using almond extract I used lemon extract so it would blend better with the flavor of the cake. It turned out wonderful!
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This is the best frosting I have ever made. I plan to use this many many more times! It's easy...
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Reviewed on Aug. 29, 2002 by VERONIQUE_3
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Aug. 29, 2002
it is an average decorating frosting
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it is an average decorating frosting
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Reviewed on Sep. 22, 2007 by d turner
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d turner
Sep. 22, 2007
I loved this frosting! I have used it several times now. It tastes awesome, simple to make and is good to frost cakes and cupcakes. I've used different variations - like used vanilla extract and lemon extract instead of almond. It was awesome! I used butter instead of shortening and it still turned out very white. Thanks!!
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I loved this frosting! I have used it several times now. It tastes awesome, simple to make...
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Reviewed on May 29, 2006 by Turner's Mom
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Turner's Mom
May 29, 2006
I use this frosting all the time for decorating cakes. It's perfect every time!
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I use this frosting all the time for decorating cakes. It's perfect every time!
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Reviewed on Sep. 16, 2005 by Melissa
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Melissa
Sep. 16, 2005
This is my husbands all time favorite frosting. I make it atleast one a week!!
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This is my husbands all time favorite frosting. I make it atleast one a week!!
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