Buttercream Icing. Our favorite creamy and fluffy buttercream frosting that is still perfect for piping and decorating. After failing to find the perfect recipe for buttercream icing, I found one that worked for me and then. Today I'm sharing with you how to make perfect buttercream Icing.
Ingredients of Buttercream Icing
- You need 1/2 cup of shortening.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of butter/margarine.
- You need 5 cup of icing sugar.
- Prepare 1 of food colouring.
- Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 1/4 cup of cold cream.
Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing. Buttercream cake icing recipes can vary in ingredients, each having a sightly different consistancy and texture, it can be silky, creamy or even fluffy. This is due to the varying quantities and ratios of.
Buttercream Icing step by step
- put bowl in fridge or freezer.
- mix marg/shortening until creamed.
- add vanilla.
- add alternatively,cold cream & icing sugar.
- mix till well blended or whip.
- separate into smaller bowls then add different colour food colouring(using too much will change icing consistency).
- For thinner icing use less icing sugar, thicker use more.
This buttercream icing is still is amazing, melt in your mouth, whippy, ultimate swirly cupcake worthy. It was fantastic on the homemade chocolate cake I made to go with it the very first time I whipped it up. This classic buttercream icing recipe is the perfect way to top cakes and cupcakes. Master this basic recipe and then you can enjoy experimenting with lots of different flavours and colours. Lemon Buttercream IcingThe Kitchen Magpie. icing sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, cream, salted butter.