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[quote=Anonymous]The posters who are disparaging salted butter are not experienced cooks/bakers, and are likely only parroting whatever they've heard from other people.

The other posters are right--butter (salted especially) AND shortening will give you the best possible frosting. You can also look up recipes and techniques for cooked buttercreams, such as German and Italian, but I personally like American buttercream the best.

I will also say that American butter really works best for frosting. Euro style butter such as Plugra and Kerrygold are really too heavy to really give you that clean flavor you're going for, and it also gives your frosting an unpleasant yellow tinge.

In pastry class, we practiced with a lot with frosting made from hi ratio shortening and powdered sugar, and with the right kind of flavoring (emulsion flavorings), I liked it almost as much as buttercream made with butter.

It all depends on what taste you're going for. If you like supermarket cake, know that it is shortening based frosting and that's what you should go for when making yours.

Whipped frosting however, is an abomination and should be purged from the planet. [/quote]

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