Buttercream Frosting Recipe/ Wedding Cakes

We all know how expensive a wedding can be, if you count how much the wedding dress, the bridal shoes, the bridal bouquet, the wedding rings will cost you will realize that you have to cut up many other things to stay within your budget. If you have a small budget for your wedding, every dollar counts. A regular wedding cake can cost over $ 500 and more according to how many guests you will have.

The cost of the wedding cake is calculated by slice, so if you will have more than 100 guests you can pay more than $ 500, according to how sophisticate you want the wedding cake to be, how many layers you the cake to have, what type of icing, frosting, filling and decorations you will choose.If you are planning for a small wedding and you want to cut up the expenses you can make your own wedding cake.

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The buttercream wedding cake is the top choice of many couples, because the texture of the buttercream frosting is smooth and creaming and melts in the mouth. If you want a traditional white wedding cake you have to choose between buttercream frosting and fondant frosting. Fondant frosting is better is you are planning an outdoor wedding or a summer wedding because it won't melt so soon as a buttercream frosting wedding cake. If you can't decide which one to choose you can have both, the frosting will create a good base for the buttercream wedding cake and you can create more intricate designs. There are many delicious buttercream frosting recipes that you can try.

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The buttercream frosting can be used on any cake, on chocolate cake, on butter cake, orange cake, cheese cake. You can choose any filling you want, any flavors according to the theme of your wedding. There are many buttercream frosting recipes, some are with eggs, some include butter and cream. One of the best buttercream frosting recipes: Ingredients: 1 cup of butter, 1 to 2 cups of sugar, 1 tbsp of vanilla, 1-2 tbsp of heavy cream. That is a simple recipe, that will only take 10 minutes to prepare. Beat butter with 1 cup of sugar with electric mixer until it is fluffy, add vanilla and 1 tbsp of cream and beat well. You can add the buttercream frosting on cupcakes or on the type of cake you want. If you are planning a small and simple wedding a home made wedding cake can be a good idea. After you put the buttercream frosting on the cake you can decorate it the way you want, you can use real flowers, gum paste flowers, you can decorate the wedding cake with ribbons or with pearls or anything you want according to the theme of you wedding. You can find more sophisticate buttercream frosting recipes on many websites such as whats cooking america, a useful website if you plan to make your own wedding cake with buttercream frosting.