Classic Bakery White Frosting Recipe
Classic Bakery White Frosting Recipe: This light and fluffy frosting is perfect for taking to outdoor events. In normal weather (Not over 100°), this amazing homemade frosting recipe does not melt, and tastes just like your favorite bakery frosting.
What Makes This Classic Bakery White Frosting Recipe Different Then Other Frosting Recipes?
VEGETABLE SHORTENING
What butter does for flavor, shortening does for texture and stability. Vegetable Shortening helps create a light and fluffy frosting while also providing a neutral flavor to help cut the richness of the butter. This allows the bakery white frosting to sit out in warm temperatures (under 100°) without melting. Another great thing about this frosting is….IT’S DAIRY FREE!
What is the Difference Between Clear Vanilla Extract and Regular?
How to the Make Classic White Frosting Recipe
This is possibly one of the easiest ways of making frosting. If you’re new to making homemade frosting then this is the perfect starter frosting recipe.
All you have to do is put EVERYTHING in a large mixing bowl and whip for 3 minutes or until the frosting is light and airy. That’s it! No waiting for the butter or cream cheese to get to room temperature or whipping the butter and cream cheese for 3 minutes BEFORE the sugar and flavorings are added.
Many Different Flavors of Frosting using One Base Recipe
- CHOCOLATE: Swap one cup of the powdered sugar for 1 cup unsweetened cocoa..leave out the vanilla and almond flavorings
- PEPPERMINT: swap the vanilla for 1 teaspoon of peppermint extract…leave out the vanilla and almond flavorings
- LEMON: Swap out the vanilla for lemon extract, also add the zest from a whole lemon (TIP: Swap some of the water or milk for the lemon juice from the zested lemon…leave out the vanilla and almond flavorings
How Long Does Frosting Made With Vegetable Shortening Last?
Can Vegetable Shortening be Substituted for Butter?
MORE HOMEMADE FROSTING RECIPES
PISTACHIO CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 2. ORANGE MARMALADE BUTTER FROSTING 3. BANANA CREAM FROSTING
Classic Bakery White Frosting Recipe
Just like your favorite bakery frosting! Stable and perfect for potlucks.
Ingredients
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1½ teaspoons clear vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 4 tablespoons milk or water
Instructions
- Add the shortening, vanilla, almond extract, sugar and, milk or water, to a medium mixing bowl.
- Beat until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes).
- Fill piping bag or spread onto cupcakes or a cake.
If you have leftover frosting, put it in a lidded container and store it in the refrigerator for up to 3 months.
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Adorable!! Where do you find the sweet cupcake papers?
Thanks Stacy, I found the liners at Michaels.
Sheryl- this is amazing. I love doing little (and big) girl tea parties. I would love to do this one sometime ? Did you make the cake stands and all the background stuff? Are the flowers real?
Hi Karen, Yes I made (or my husband made) the cake stand and the background stuff. If you click on the Tinker Bell Woodland Party Guest Table link you will find other links to all the things I created for this fun table. The flowers and greenery are all artificial. 🙂 https://www.ladybehindthecurtain.com/tinker-bell-woodland-party/
This is all amazing. You are so talented. I subscribed hoping to learn how to be amazing like you.
Thanks Amy for the kind words of encouragement. 🙂
Hi Sheryl.
Just wondering if this frosting needs to be refrigerated and how does it keep. Thanks.
Hi Claudette, Since there is nothing in the frosting that is perishable, it can be left out on the counter in an airtight container for several days. This frosting is amazing it keeps its integrity really well.
Crisco or some kind of specialty shortening?
Hi Liz, I use Crisco.
I would be using this to frost a birthday cake (smooth), then drawing lines across with chocolate ganache (then making chevron stripes by pulling a knife across the chocolate lines). Is this an icing that I could use “flat” on a cake, and does it sort of harden? (I don’t want something that stays soft and fluffy). Thanks!
Hi Vicki, After the cake is frosted, leave it uncovered. The frosting should harden or have a hardened crust. I’m not sure if it will be as hard as you want it though. I will say the frosting does harden enough on cookies so they can be stacked.