The Best Stiff Buttercream Recipe for Piping Flowers

By efriend

If you plan to pipe buttercream flowers the first thing you need is the best stiff buttercream frosting recipe. One that will pipe perfect buttercream flowers for you and will taste as delicious as it looks. This recipe has been my go to for all my buttercream flowers; I think you will love it too.

Ingredients

• Unsalted Butter - 456 grams  (4 sticks) room temperature
• Powder Sugar / Confectioners Sugar - 1 kg (2.2 lbs)
• Cornstarch/Cornflour or pudding mix - 1/4 cup
• Whipping Cream - 1/4 cup (plus extra for consistency)
• Clear Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
• Clear Almond Extract - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - 1 tsp

Details

Servings 2
Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 10mins
Adapted from veenaazmanov.com

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Have all ingredients at room temperature
Place butter in a mixer bowl with a paddle attachment and mix until creamy - 30 seconds
Add cream, salt, cornflour - mix slowly to incorporate.
Make sure you have no lumps - if necessary add a bit of the powder sugar to help it combine
Scarp the sides and bottom of the bowl for any butter stuck.
Once you have a smooth creamy mix - add the powder sugar in two batches.
When all the sugar is in - scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl again.
Add vanilla and almond extract
Give it one last mix for 2 minutes - check to make sure it's not too stiff and not too gritty.
If necessary add 1 or 2 tbsp fresh cream or milk to adjust consistency.
Unlike my Velvet American Buttercream Recipe this one gets mixed for barely 5 minutes in total.