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I feel very frustrated today. I made 4 different buttercreams and all of them ended up curdled. I have no clue what went wrong or what I did.

First buttercream was for Lime Strawberry Cupcakes - mixture of butter, cream cheese, strawberry puree and lemon juice.  All room temperature, strawberry added tbs after tbs. Curled .

Other was Dulce de Leche with butter - same effect.

Next - buttercream with strawberry puree only. Curled.

Last one was for Neapolitan Cupcake. Regular buttercream with cream cheese and little amount of vanilla ice cream. Curled again.

I tried to beat it on high, add little of butter, melted it in microwave. Disaster.

I never had this issues before, at leas not this amount.

I used same Brand ingredients as I did before. This recipes were new to me though and also, I used my  new Kitchen Aid. I was using just regular stand up mixer before. Could all this happened because of over beating? Or what else can be problem? Please, any advice will be appreciated. 

 

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Hello Majika:
Things curdle because you are trying to add too much liquid to the fat and it isnt accepting it. Did you add the powdered sugar first to the butter? It is better to cream the butter and sugar for at least 7-8 minutes before adding other ingredients.You cant add liquid directly into the fat (butter). It will curdle immediately...can you give me some more specifics on the recipes?

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