It doesn't matter - you can use a whisk, a fork, or an electric mixer or food-processor. Top chefs often say it doesn't matter in what order you combine ingredients.
Just need a mixer
No, just cream and salt.
Ya, cream's a solution of milk, sugar, butter.
The answer is yes, butter cream icing requires powdered sugar to come out correctly. If you don't have powdered sugar, regular granulated white sugar can be processed in an household blender,which will give it the right consistency for butter cream icing.
Glaze is made using powdered sugar, butter, and milk or cream. To make: cream the powdered sugar with softened butter, slowly add milk or cream as you incorporate it into the mixture by stirring. Alternately add additional powdered sugar or very small amounts of cream until the mixture reaches the desired consistency. If you don't have powdered sugar just place regular sugar in a food processor or blender and run until the sugar is powdered.
With a stand mixer or a hand held mixer, mix butter and sugar until color is light and mixture is fluffly. Do not over mix!!! Butter and sugar is overmixed when the butter starts to separate.
There is no substitute for sugar when making butter-cream frosting. However if you use melted chocolate your frosting will still work, it'll just be a little different. Butter-cream frosting cannot be made without sugar. Melted chocolate will not produce a butter-cream frosting, but will produce chocolate spread over a cake.
I bet the macoroni & cheese & the peanut butter ice cream has more sugar but it sounds better so eat that one instead! lol
Best to use softened butter (room temperature). That will be plenty soft enough. If you use melted butter (example for cookies, etc.) your batter will spread too much in the initial cooking and baked cookies will be paper thin and hard as a rock!Melted butter is also hot, and can curdle milk if mixed. Not good.
To cream, is to mix with a spoon, normally butter and sugar, as in cake pudding or cookie recipes. When asked to cream the butter and sugar, just beat with a spoon until the texture and colour changes, to a light airy consistency.
French butter cream frosting is made with granulated sugar, flour, salt, milk, butter and vanilla. See link to Wiltonrecipe below.
When you put the butter and sugar in the mixing bowl and put the mixer on high, or cream, and mix the two items together till they are smooth, or creamed.
I would say a classic butter cream.