Do you have a better butter-cream frosting recipe than I do?

I'm always use this butter cream recipes for cake, cupcake or even to decorate some chocolate cake. The feedback are real good. It's easy and not too sweet and creamy. I'm sure children will love it. :)

- 200 g, unsalted butter

- 100 g, shortening

- 1/4 tsp, salt

- 1 can, sweetened condensed milk (around 380-400 g)

- vanilla extract or as desired

Beat butter, shortening and salt together until butter is fluffy and double in volume, may take up to 15 minutes.

Then slowly pour in condensed milk while beating butter until well blended. Add vanilla extract and taste it.

Enjoy~

This recipe is very creamy & not too sweet...

2 cups butter, softened

1 cup heavy whipping cream

1 cup confectioners' sugar

DIRECTIONS

In a large bowl, Whip the butter on high speed, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl. Whip until double in volume. This takes a very long time, approximately 10 minutes.

While still whipping, drizzle in the heavy cream. Continue whipping until the mixture is stiff, approximately 2 to 4 minutes.

Add 1/2 of the confectioners sugar and whip until smooth. At this point, you can taste the frosting and determine if you would like to add more sugar to sweeten to taste.

Butter Cream Frosting

INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup shortening

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

5 cups confectioners' sugar

1/4 cup milk

DIRECTIONS

In a large bowl, cream margarine and shortening until light and fluffy. Add salt, vanilla, confectioners' sugar and milk. Beat well.

BUTTER CREAM FROSTING

3 tbsp. softened butter

1 c. powdered sugar

1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa

2-3 tbsp. milk

1/2 tsp. vanilla

In small bowl, beat butter. Add powdered sugar and cocoa alternately with milk; beat until smooth until a smooth spreading consistency is achieved. Blend in vanilla.

INGREDIENTS

410 g shortening

960 g confectioners' sugar

3 g salt

10 ml clear imitation vanilla extract

175 ml heavy cream

DIRECTIONS

1) Cream shortening until fluffy. Add confectioner's sugar and continue creaming until well blended.

2) Add salt, vanilla, and whipping cream blend on low speed until moistened. Add additional whipping cream if necessary (up to 2 ounces). Beat at high speed until frosting is fluffy.

How about adding an 8 oz pkg of cream cheese to your butter while creaming it, then proceed with the rest of your ingredients. We use that recipe for our cinnamon rolls and get great reviews.

Sparki77 hi, you should know better than that at your level, good things take time, and come on it is for your daughters birthday. You know the best way is the true and tested way, start taking too many deviations it's sure to screw up.

Chris