I need white icing...

[SilentBoob]

I mean soft, spready icing, not Christmas cake icing.
It needs to be white in colour.
I need something you can happily eat a lot of (multiple cake layers all sandwiched together, plus more over the whole cake).

If I make it with butter it will be a creamy colour, not white.

I have made this icing before but I can't remember if it was white or cream coloured. I do remember it was delicious though.

I am reluctant to use vegetable shortening or cream cheese icing because I think that too much of either of those is not nice.

You need this then.

I can't remember what the ingredient quantities are, to make the icing, but if you give me a minute!

I don't find the Superwhite very good at making buttercream very white, the buttercream is just too yellow to start with. You could try a Swiss or Italian meringue buttercream, which are both less yellow to start with though and add the Superwhite to that.

I think if it had to be white I'd go for Trex, but use a higher fat:icing sugar ratio and then add vanilla extract to flavour it and a bit of superwhite to brighten if it needs it.

I disappeared somewhere, sorry.

Whilst Googling, I found an interesting thing. Apparently, if you add a tiny amount of lilac food colouring, it cancels out the yellow of the butter and gives a bright white! Can't see it myself, but next time I'm making white icing, I will try it.

Amazing if it does work though....

I do what Maureen said.

I use a tiny bit of blue food colouring, and it does cancel out the yellow, but you don't get pure white.

If you do try this just add a TINY bit at a time, I start with about half a drop and then just keep adding a smudge until it starts becoming white.

HTH

If you make the hummingbird vanilla frosting and beat it for long enough (set a timer and walk away) it will be honest-to-goodness white.

I am fairly sure that if I add blue to my yellow buttercream I will get green.

The Superwhite stuff looks good. Not sure if I can get it over here.

Trex would work but it does make me shudder to plaster a lovely cake in Trex.

Is the swiss meringue buttercream like the stuff in my link?

Pressed post too soon.

Thanks all for advice.

Will Google hummingbird frosting.

sod it. I'd buy a tub of betty crocker vanilla and have done

But it tastes so nasty.

Mind you it's only for a bunch of 6 yr olds.

Actually, you're right. Sod it. It's for a bunch of 6 yr olds. They can have Trex.

I don't know if it's quite what you are after, but I use the primrose bakery recipe for meringue icing. It's really tasty and looks pretty too. I'm on my phone so can't find a link, but to get enough icing for 6 cupcakes I whisk the whites of two eggs until they are really frothy, then add sugar tablespoon by tablespoon, but I can't remember how much or if it is icing sugar or caster

Then you just pipe it.

You want this It is white and tastes nice! :)

hummingbird vanilla frosting is basically buttercream, with less butter, a bit of milk (and vanilla) and a lot of beating. It gets rave reviews whenever I use it.

I'm making . Pretty cool I think.

Chantilly cream no good. It's 40+ degrees where we live.

That link looks interesting Heuvos. Have you made it yourself?

Cream cheese frosting. Philli, or similar, and icing sugar. It's not quite as sickly as buttercream, but you can frost and pipe it just the same, and best of all, it's bright white!

I have silent. Because you beat it for an age in the mixer, it goes very white. Tastes a bit like whipped cream with sugar mixed in - is that Chantilly?

I got the recipe from someone (Honey Dragon, I think) on the Wood Pussies thread, or its precursor.

you did. It is my stand by white icing now, as dcs aren't keen on cream cheese icing or the meringue icings.

Honestly it does work, I thought it was crap too, so I tried it on some cakes I was making for myself and although it doesnt make them snowy white, it defo eliminates most of the yellow