Wilton Copycat Buttercream Icing

photo by Realtor by day, Chef by night





- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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3 cups
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup Crisco, room temp
- 1⁄2 cup butter, room temp
- 1 1 teaspoon almond extract or 1 teaspoon butter flavor extract
- 2 tablespoons milk or 2 tablespoons water
- 4 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
- 1 tablespoon meringue powder
directions
- Cream the butter and crisco together.
- Add the flavour extract and water.
- Add dry ingredients 1 cup at a time and beat on medium until throughly mixed.
- Beat for another 7-10 minutes till the icing is creamy and smooth.
- Keep covered with a damp cloth while using and leftovers can be stored in the fridge for 2 weeks.
- This yields about 3 cups.
Questions & Replies

Reviews
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Thank you so much for posting this! It tastes exactly like bakery icing. I have had this picked and printed since adopting you during PAC. I've been waiting for this round of holidays to use it. My little girl and my Dad both have birthdays on Memorial Day weekend so I put this recipe through it's paces and it was FANTASTIC in EVERY way. First, I made cupcakes for my little one to have on her actual birth "day". Then I made her a chocolate Little Mermaid cake and decorated it with this great icing. For my Dad, I made a lemon layer cake iced & decorated with this icing flavored with lemon extract instead of the vanilla. It was so easy to make and so easy to work with. I'm not a great decorator but this icing made me look like I was almost good at it. These cakes were big hits! Thanks, CC!!!
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This was very easy to make, and easy to work with. I'm not very skilled as a cake decorator, but even I was able to pull off a decent job of my son's Spiderman request for his birthday cake. I like the butter/shortening balance here, because using all shortening leaves a greasy feeling coating my tongue which I don't like in a frosting. Thanks so much, C.C.!
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Thank you so much for posting this! It tastes exactly like bakery icing. I have had this picked and printed since adopting you during PAC. I've been waiting for this round of holidays to use it. My little girl and my Dad both have birthdays on Memorial Day weekend so I put this recipe through it's paces and it was FANTASTIC in EVERY way. First, I made cupcakes for my little one to have on her actual birth "day". Then I made her a chocolate Little Mermaid cake and decorated it with this great icing. For my Dad, I made a lemon layer cake iced & decorated with this icing flavored with lemon extract instead of the vanilla. It was so easy to make and so easy to work with. I'm not a great decorator but this icing made me look like I was almost good at it. These cakes were big hits! Thanks, CC!!!