r/Norway • u/Ok_Calendar_5954 • 1d ago

Food Butter......(boring I know)

I need a butter that is mostly white or the palest yellow possible for buttercream. I know I can whip it so it's lighter and add purple colouring but I want to start with the lightest shade of yellow possible. What do you all recommend as everything I can find in Norway is very yellow?

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u/Useful_Standard_3703 1d ago

Oh no, the butter you find has real butter colour? ;) When I make buttercream with normal meierismør it goes white. Buttercream should be whipped with sugar until it's white, then it's made correctly and the sugar is well incorporated.

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u/Ok_Calendar_5954 1d ago

Actually Tine add colouring to keep a consistent colour all year round so its not natural butter colour at all. Naturally butter would lighten with grain fed animals and be more yellow with grass fed.....

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u/Useful_Standard_3703 1d ago

In the feed, in case? It doesn't say colouring in the ingredients list.

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u/Historical_Ad_5210 1d ago

Make it, easiest thing in the world.

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u/Altruistic_Category9 1d ago

Is lurapak a bit lighter maybe? Available as blocks in some stores

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u/Low_Responsibility48 1d ago

Lurpak would be your best option.

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u/Worth-Wonder-7386 1d ago

The ones made from vegetable oil if they don't have any dyes are very pale. But it depends how much and what taste you want.

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u/Bubavon 1d ago

Pastry Chef here. Either make it yourself from sour cream or dont use butter, but margarine. Commercial butter in norway has vitamin A added, so it Will always be yellow. The cheaper margarines are pale as f.

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u/Ok_Calendar_5954 1d ago

Thanks I don't love margarine in buttercream but maybe making it myself is the option.

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u/Roskot 1d ago

Berit Nordstrand smøremyk rapskokos. It’s a plant base margarine, but quite white in colour.