White butter

[iloveminieggs]

Is there such a thing? We made some fairy cakes with butter icing and it looked more yellowy that white so on adding the blue colouring it looks green. SiL wants to make some blue, red and white ones for jubilee so we wondered if you can buy white/whiter butter? Thanks in advance

Lactic butter vs sweetcream butter, apparently.

Anchor is yellow, Lurpak is white.

Trills is correct, British butter is yellow where as mainland Europe is white.

or use a different type of icing?
or white flora

Some of the professional cake maker buttercreams are made with a mix of butter and white vegetable fat such as Trex, which makes the icing whiter.

Actually it tastes OK, but once you know what's in it, it seems a bit gross.

The other thing is to try colouring pastes from a proper cake making supplies place rather than liquids, because the pastes contain much more pigment.

Thanks Ladies I'll look into them. Not sure about the British/ European theory as we used lurpak for some the other day.

As a cake decorator lurpak is my chosen butter. You need to make plain buttercream first and really whip it with a hand mixer(or stand mixer if you have one) for a good 5 minutes or so. The longer you mix it for the whiter it will get. Then you can add the chosen colour.

If you used lurpak the other day then surely you will have noticed that it is a much paler colour than nice yellow butter.