Reviewed: Mar. 30, 2012

Sandra, Great frosting, my daughter is getting married and she can not have milk products. I'm using your receipt for her wedding cake. It is so easy to make and to work with and freezes well. I have made lots of example wedding cakes before the real deal, and everyone loves it.

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Granny Fanny

Reviewed: Mar. 8, 2012

Loved it. Made half a recipe, and it was enough to frost 12 cupcakes and about 30 mini cupcakes with some left over. I used a bit more butter than called for in the half recipe, which was a good call. Beat this for a good 12 minutes in my Kitchen Aid, and it was nice and fluffy/creamy. Will use again. Thanks!

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KIMSCOOKINGNOW

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Little Chute, Wisconsin, USA

Living In: Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 27, 2012

This was the best frosting EVER. I will forever use this sweet but too sweet frosting. The 15 min. of mixing makes it so light. I piped on cupcakes and frosting another rect. cake and it was cooperative.

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AuntE

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: East Lyme, Connecticut, USA

Living In: Lebanon, Connecticut, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 29, 2012

I tried this recipe and it was awesome, very similar to the grocery store frosting . The only thing I suggest is to use a mixer with strong mixers and you do have to add a few tablespoons of water to get it to the right consistency on top of mixing it for 15 minutes. I have allready made two cakes using this frosting and everyone loved it!!!

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saggy99

Living In: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Jan. 11, 2012

Easy and delicious! I used butter flavored Crisco, salted butter, home made vanilla extract and skipped the salt, I upped the extract to replace the water. I didn't mix for 15 minutes - my KA whipped it up in about half of that. Will make again.

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What's for dinner, mom?

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Dec. 20, 2011

Tryed this recipe with my 12 and 9 year old daughters and it didn't come out well. The only flavor we tasted was shortining. We even added more sugar and vanilla but it was still not good. We will never do this recipe again.

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pagninistuff

Reviewed: Dec. 5, 2011

This frosting was the best frosting I've ever made. It was easy, and tasted great. Nice and fluffy and not too sweet.

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sydneypeters

Reviewed: Nov. 25, 2011

Fantastic! I was afraid to beat the entire 15 minutes (and with 5 grandkids screaming to decorate cupcakes any excuse to hush them up would do) so I only beat for about 6 minutes. Mine came up beautifully without (as others have mentioned) any overt powdered sugary or greasy shortening taste. She was a little stiff, but I'm sure with the full mixing that glitch would be eliminated. New go-to recipe. Thanks so much!

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Litegal1

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Anaheim, California, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 3, 2011

Amazing! It really does taste like grocery store bakery frosting -- a cloud-like consistency and a very clean, not-too-buttery flavor. I consider myself an icing connoisseur, and this will be topping my cakes for a long time. I made about 1/4 of the recipe (5 servings in the calculator), and it was just enough for 6 delicious cupcakes.

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J. Mill

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA

Living In: Munich, Bayern, Germany

Reviewed: Jul. 11, 2011

The best. I do not have a mixer so I did this by hand and it was Easy Easy Easy...used butter flavor shortening, unsalted butter, and eyeballed the confectioner's sugar. I scaled it to 4 servings to frost an 8x8 and 4 cupcakes (long story). Does NOT taste like powdered sugar, which is always my biggest complaint about homemade frosting...will be coming back to this one again and again! UPDATE: Made this again for my son's birthday cake, using unflavored shortening and adding liquid food coloring...and I still love it...but he didn't like it :( So, next year will have to try a different recipe out for him. But I will still use this one for me!

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