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Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: New Milton, West Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 7, 2013

I wanted a frosting that tasted like bakery frosting. This one tasted slightly half sweet and half crisco. It went on the cake well and didn't "deflate" even though the party was the next day. I think next time I'll just buy a tub of the Betty Crocker frosting from the grocery store.

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Katie

Reviewed: Feb. 27, 2013

Just like lots of others, I didn't have powdered butter flavoring so I used 1/2 cup shortening & 1/4 cup butter and it turned out great - I got lots of compliments. I did find that I had to mix it by hand at first to incorporate the icing sugar and then use my hand-held mixer to keep the sugar from going all over the place.

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Sheep Girl

Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2012

WHY do people insist on rating recipes when they've screwed around with the ingredients & amounts? You can't give this recipe a poor rating when you've substituted half the shortening with butter & then complain about the consistency or greasiness! This recipe is perfect for decorated cakes with a good, traditional birthday cake flavor.

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stephlmanson

Reviewed: Jul. 30, 2012

Great recipe! Like some other reviewers, I didn't have powdered butter. So I took the shortening down to 1/2 cup and used 1/4 cup softened butter. I also didn't have clear imitation vanilla, and I didn't want to use regular vanilla extract cause I was afraid it would taint the nice white color. Instead I used just 1/2 teaspoon of almond extract (since it's clear) and it turned out AMAZING! The almond flavor was not overpowering and it this frosting went great on both my white and chocolate cake. Thanks!

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AshleyMac91

Cooking Level: Beginning

Reviewed: Jul. 14, 2012

Definitely use the butter powder or do as other reviewers have said and use some butter in place of some shortening. I didn't have either on hand after making the cake so just omitted it. Just tasted like sweet shortening. Seemed a little greasy to me as well which wouldn't change with the butter powder. Easy though

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bmeada13

Reviewed: Jul. 4, 2012

Excellent frosting and super easy to make.

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Erin A.

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Reading, Massachusetts, USA

Living In: Alexandria, New Hampshire, USA

Reviewed: Jul. 2, 2012

Delicious and so easy to make. I didn't use any butter flavoring and it still turned out fantastic! Highly recommend trying this one. Also, if you don't have any powdered/confectioners sugar, you can use a blender to grind up regular granulated sugar and turn it into powder sugar.

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