Custard buttercream
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Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 24 cupcakes
A delicious explosion of vanilla custard flavoured buttercream that goes perfectly with Snowflake’s Easymix Vanilla Cupcakes. Disclaimer: This recipe has been adapted for Snowflake using the recipe found here: http://bit.ly/2SOUWQ
Ingredients
64g Snowflake Vanilla Flavoured Custard Powder
500ml Milk
500ml Caster sugar
454g Unsalted butter, softened
60ml Cream or milk
Method
- In a small saucepan, stir together the custard powder and a little milk until you have a paste. Add the rest of the milk and whisk well until smooth.
- Add ½ of the sugar and mix well.
- Heat over low heat while stirring constantly to prevent lumps, for around 7 minutes until you have a very thick custard (it should drop off the spoon in dollops).
- Transfer to a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap pressed right onto the surface to stop a skin forming and place in the fridge until cool.
- Once the custard is cool, place the butter and the remaining ½ cup of sugar in a bowl and beat well, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary until very light and creamy.
- Add a pinch of salt to the cold custard (which should be like a big blob of firm custard) and beat well.
- Add half the milk or cream and beat until the buttercream is smooth and there are no more sugar grains (this may take around 5 minutes).
- Beat in a little more milk or cream as needed to loosen the mix up a little so that you can pipe it.
