Recipe: Appetizing Buttercream Icing

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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.

Buttercream Icing

By Caroline Hire - Food writer. Buttercream icing is a rich, creamy topping for cakes and cupcakes. Also known as buttercream frosting, buttercream icing tastes vastly better than store-bought icing. You can have Buttercream Icing using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Buttercream Icing

  1. Prepare 1 of & 1/2 cups butter (at room temperature).
  2. You need 1 of & 1/2 cups shortening (regular or butter flavored).
  3. You need 6 cups of powered sugar.
  4. Prepare 6 tbsp of heavy whipping cream.
  5. It's 3 tsp of vanilla extract.
  6. Prepare 1 tsp of almond extract (optional).
  7. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.

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 instructions

  1. Start by whipping your butter and shorting (electric mixer is a must) mix for at least 5 minutes. You'll be able to tell that it is done when the butter turns white. (The mixing here is crucial!) *side note* the butter you see here is pure Irish butter, made from grass fed cows. Now, the butter you use does not have to be this brand, just make sure it is a pure, high grade butter..
  2. By one cup at a time, SIFT and add your powered sugar. (Sifting your sugar is also very important, to get that super smooth texture) *side note* Domino brand works well...Ive used off brand sugar multiple times and it just never turns out the same. Key words to look for are PURE CANE SUGAR 😉.
  3. Once all of your sugar is incorporated, add salt and mix for about 5 minutes..
  4. Add your cream, vanilla, and almond extract. Continue mixing for another 3-5 minutes..
  5. You can also add food coloring at this time! Mix until color is fully blended..
  6. Enjoy!!.
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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.