How to Make Italian Buttercream

Italian buttercream is famous around the world. It is silky and not too sweet. It is mainly used for cake decoration by using sugar syrup and other edible decorative elements to make a plain cake more visually interesting. It takes a maximum of 30 minutes to make this. During this process, the egg white should maintain a particular temperature but it has some difficulty storing at room temperature. Whipping the egg white with sugar syrup is the main thing to make this buttercream.

Key Takeaways:

• If you’re an adventurous home cook, Italian buttercream is one of the most popular styles of frosting for pastry chefs!
• Italian buttercream is merely warmed with hot sugar syrup unlike Swiss buttercream which is cooked over a hot water bath for meringue, but the results are equally fluffy.
• Swiss buttercream’s final cooking temperature is 185°F over the course of 10 min.

“The reward of using syrups like honey and maple is remarkable, producing a boldly flavored and super-aromatic buttercream.”

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