Wedding Cake Icing With Crisco

Mix 1 pound sugar with crisco and 1 2 of water.

Wedding cake icing with crisco. Thin consistency is best for cake frosting as well as piping lines and letters. 4 cups powdered sugar. Why make frosting with crisco.

My grandma called this wedding cake frosting because it is often used on wedding cakes. Also if you use the butter flavored crisco the frosting will turn out very yellow unsuitable for a wedding cake. Beat on low speed gradually adding milk until evenly blended.

You don t have to use it on wedding cakes of course. If you are making a buttercream intended for writing use light corn syrup as your liquid. Add 2 teaspoons of liquid light corn syrup milk or water for each cup of buttercream frosting.

For pure white frosting add up to 4 tablespoons of liquid. Mix all the above ingredients together with standing mixer adding more milk as needed for desired consistency. What may surprise you is how widely crisco frosting is still used in bakeries.

Blend all ingredients at low speed on mixer till well blended and easy to work with. I used this icing for my mom s wedding cake this weekend and everyone complimented on it. It s light and creamy with a delicate almond flavor and it holds up well for decorating too.

It was an easy way to make icing when you didn t have any butter available. Crisco frosting was quite popular in the 1960s and 1970s. I use my 20 year old sunbeam mixer shown above that.