Crusting Buttercream
 
 
Ingredients
  • 8 cups icing sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 1 cup shortening (I used Crisco)
  • 1 tsp clear vanilla extract (use clear for white frosting)
  • 1/2 cup – 3/4 cup milk
  • Optional: 1/4 – 1/3 cup lemon curd
Instructions
  1. Cream shortening and vanilla in mixer for 2-4 minutes. Add in powder sugar, one cup at a time. If you find your mixer struggling, slowing add in milk. Use more milk for a creamy consistency, use less milk for a stiff consistency.
  2. Mix in lemon curd to taste. This makes a very light, cream colored icing.. still white but almost the color of a rose petal.
  3. You may use half crisco and half butter, I used all Crisco. Use less sugar if you think this recipe will be too sweet.
  4. Because I used only Crisco, I found this icing sweet but uninteresting.. the addition of the lemon curd made all the difference.
  5. By I Am Baker
Recipe by Just a Smidgen at https://justasmidgen.com/2012/05/09/lemon-meringue-rose-petal-cake/