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Cake Icing/Frosting Recipes

What sort of shortening is used in an icing sugar recipe? This recipe calls for butter plus shortening.

By Patricia

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06/26/2010

Vegetable shortening is what my Mother and I always used. Back then, in the 40s and 50s we used a shortening called Spry. I can't remember if it was cheaper than Crisco or not. That is just what my Mother always used. By the time I was baking on my own, Spry was no longer available and I used Crisco for all of the things that called for shortening.

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06/25/2010

Vegetable shortening such as Crisco. I've used cheaper off brand vegetable shortenings and haven't noticed any difference.

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