Apr 29

Basic buttercream icing

MAKES: Icing for 1 medium cake/6 cupcakes/12 fairy cakes

(29/4/21 – used 4x quantity which covered 45 cakes with some leftover)

Ingredients

  • 140g/5oz butter, softened
  • 280g/10oz icing sugar
  • 1-2 tbsp milk
  • ¼ tsp vanilla extract
  • few drops food colouring

For an orange buttercream variation

  • 1 large orange, zest and 2 tbsp juice

For a chocolate variation

  • 25g/1oz cocoa powder
  • 75g/2½oz milk or dark chocolate, melted

 

Method

  1. Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.

  2. Add the remaining icing sugar and one tablespoon of the milk and vanilla extract and beat the mixture until creamy and smooth. Beat in the remaining milk, if necessary, to loosen the mixture.

  3. Stir in the food colouring, if using, until well combined.

  4. For the orange buttercream variation, omit the milk and vanilla from the basic recipe. Stir in the orange zest and juice until thoroughly combined.

  5. For the chocolate variation, omit the milk from the basic recipe. Cream the butter and sugar, as above, also adding the cocoa powder. Allow the melted chocolate to cool for 10 minutes before adding to the whipped butter and sugar. Beat until well combined.

Recipe Tips

If your icing sugar is a bit old and pebbly, sieve the icing sugar to eliminate any clumps as these will not dissolve in the butter icing.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/basicbuttericing_73263

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