Prepare your egg foam base you start with a prepared egg foam base. Perfect swiss meringue buttercream frosting recipe baking tips made to order chef zee cooks duration. Unlike swiss or italian buttercream an american vanilla buttercream frosting recipe requires no heating egg whites or whipping meringue. The meringue makes this frosting much lighter and smoother than american or store bought canned frosting so it s an ideal frosting for cake decorating when you re ready to level up your technique a bit. We all know american buttercream a k a.
However while an italian buttercream is made by enriching an italian meringue made by pouring hot sugar syrup into egg whites this buttercream is based on a swiss meringue a meringue made by whipping a mixture of egg whites and sugar that has been gently heated in a double boiler until the sugar dissolved into the egg whites. Italian meringue buttercream recipe without thermometer. Swiss or italian meringue or pâte à bombe egg yolks beaten with a hot sugar syrup. To prepare it pour a hot sugar syrup over whipped egg whites and whip until the mixture cools off. In the following photos i m making a swiss buttercream but the method is similar if you re making an italian buttercream or french buttercream.
Italian buttercream is very easy to work with. Buttercream frosting requires only a mixture of butter powdered sugar vanilla and a touch of milk and salt. Icing depending on what part of the country you re from. How sweet it is. Then add in butter one tablespoon at a time beating until you have an airy frosting.
Then add in butter one tablespoon at a time beating until you have an airy frosting. Italian buttercream is very easy to work with. However while an italian buttercream is made by enriching an italian meringue made by pouring hot sugar syrup into egg whites this buttercream is based on a swiss meringue a meringue made by whipping a mixture of egg whites and sugar that has been gently heated in a double boiler until the sugar dissolved into the egg whites. Prepare your egg foam base you start with a prepared egg foam base.
