Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Fri 13 Jun 2008 11:11:18p, ms. tonya told us...
>
>> Been online for a while searching for a white buttercream piping
>> recipe using no shortening as looking through my old notes from few
>> years past when I took a Wilton cake class and can remember their
>> buttercream recipe was totally disgusting.
>>
>> I've gone through Rose Levy Beranbaum's book The Cake Bible and still
>> not what am looking for.
>>
>> I would be using the recipe this Sunday for a character cake am
>> baking, it's nothing fancy but don't want the taste of Crisco either.
>>
>> If anyone has a simple buttercream recipe they use for piping they
>> like to share I would be grateful.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> I think it's unlikely that you'll find a *white* buttercream that is
> pipeable that doesn't use solid vegetable shortening. The only other
> white fat I'm aware of is lard, and I doubt you'd like that taste
> either. Buttercream definitely requires a fat, especially if you plan
> to pipe it.

I have always used butter, as the name suggests. I don't know what Crisco
is and I would never use lard