Cooked Flour Buttercream! (Ermine Buttercream) - No Eggs, No Icing Sugar, Less Sweet | Cupcake Jemma

SOME TIPS for those new to this frosting: Ermine has been my go-to for years! I love it. It's incredibly light and fluffy, silky smooth, and only as sweet as you want it. You can also replace the milk with different liquids to get different flavors for it. I've even used champagne + milk as the liquid to make pink champagne cupcakes. And the other day I used brown sugar instead of white sugar for peanut butter frosting. It's so versatile! Some people complain about it getting too soft or runny. The only reason for this is either they didn't add enough flour, and/or didn't cook it long enough. Cook it for at least 30 seconds, and a little longer is totally fine! Depending on the stiffness I want for my buttercream, I adjust the roux. Either add a tad more flour, or cook it for a bit longer to make it a little more thick. I usually make my roux thicker than this, where it isn't running off the spoon, but I can easily "fling" it off the spoon when I'm adding. If the buttercream is too stiff then add a bit of cream. You can also make the roux ahead of time and refrigerate it, so it's all ready to go. It's like the easiest and tastiest frosting you can make, I have no idea why people go to the trouble of making SMBC lol.

My mother used to make this buttercream, but using cornstarch instead of flour for an even more delicate texture.

As an Australian this is my go-to buttercream!

This is genius!! Super smart to reduce the sweetness!

Finally, its time to bring this red velvet frosting back on trend! I love Ermine frosting! ❤️

My mom used to make this frosting all the time. Lately, I've found I like to use it with a red velvet cake to help cut down on using all cream cheese frosting as I find that can be a bit heavy at times. And this is just so light and has a very good, but neutral, flavor that goes really well with the cream cheese and red velvet flavors.

Yess ermine frosting is the best! I always get compliments on my cakes when I use it

Great to have different buttercream options, will try it soon!

Just made a chocolate cake and used this frosting, excellent. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing ❤ will soon to try it!

I’ve never seen this before,will definitely try it thank you.xx

great video Jemma great to have you back

Cool!I will definitely try it out.Thanks Jemma, you are a queen!👏🏻

Been wanting to try this . Thanks Jemma shall now give it a go . Xx

Thank you Jemma bless to your family

That looks delicious Jemma Thankyou❤️💕

My fav buttercream ❤

Never tried this but making it today 😊😊

Finally! Thank you. Perfect for red velvet cake.

First timer here , just stumbled in…👨‍🍳 Brilliant 👏👏 can’t wait to try it…!