Wedding Cakes

Buttercream Icing Recipes For Wedding In New York

Everybody loves cakes. All sorts of cakes! With cream, with syrup, with different types of fruits and so on and so forth. Their shapes can be in so many ways that you will get old trying to count them. Especially the wedding cakes. Nowadays, there are shapes from the strangest to the most elegant. All depending on the preferences of the client and how exactly he or she wants the cake to look and taste.




If you are getting married and you have a small wedding, only with very close friends and parents, what do you say about this: why not make your own wedding cake? The internet and cook books are full of recipes for wedding cakes. You can decide to whatever filling you want, but I want to give you some recipes for buttercream icing. Buttercream is one of the best things on Earth, don’t you agree? For people like us, that have a sweet tooth, buttercream is something we can’t live without. Sure, I am joking, but you may agree with me that buttercream is amazingly good. That is why I am offering you some buttercream icing recipes.

Here is one that was tried and it works and is very good:
1 cup butter, room temperature
2 cups Crisco shortening>
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
2 pounds powdered (confectioners’) cane sugar, divided – 2 pounds unsifted powdered sugar = about 8 to 9 cups
1 tablespoon meringue powder Just Whites

water or milk as necessary, aprox. 2 tbs.

In the electric mixer, combine butter, Crisco shortening, and salt together to incorporate, about 5 minutes on low. Add butter, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Mix together well. Add about 1 pound (4 to 4 1/2 cups) powdered sugar and the meringue powder; mix until  incorporated. Add the remaining powdered sugar, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar at a time, and mix until you get the consistency you want. You may not need to use all the powdered sugar. Add a little water or milk, a teaspoon at a time, if necessary to thin the frosting. Blend well on low for several minutes. Use immediately or cover and refrigerate. Makes about 3 1/2 pounds of buttercream icing.

For more buttercream icing recipes you can go here, here and here. These websites have advice for a successful buttercream and other recipes too. If you are interested in buttercream icing for wedding cakes, then these websites will help you.

Moreover, if you are planning to have your wedding in New York, then you must know that New York is a wonderful places for wedding ceremonies. For a perfect wedding I suggest wedding locations like Alger House, Cipriani Wall Street, City Hall Restaurant, The Puck Building or The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel. Check their websites to see the picture galleries and you will see why I said that New York is perfect for weddings. And the wedding cake made by you will be the evening attraction.

So, there you have it. If you dare to make your own buttercream icing for your own wedding cake at your New York wedding, then I wish you good luck!