How To Make The Buttercream Icing

Buttercream icing unlike the royal icing is used to ice the cake 

and is good for most of your decorations.

It is pretty much a butter or sugar frosting.

You would want to ice the cake with buttercream 

as it remains soft and won't dry hard ♥ 

You will need:

Extra equipment:

♥ large bowl

♥ icing syringe

♥ a mixer

♥ wooden spoon (optional)

Ingredients:

♥ 75 g (3 oz) butter

♥ 150 g (6 oz) icing sugar

♥ 1-2 tbsp milk

♥ food colouring (optional)

Tips:

♥ use blue, yellow and red colourant to create custom colours icing.

♥ to soften the butter, take it out of the fridge at least 30 minutes

before cooking.

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To make:

1. Use a wooden spoon or a mixer to beat the butter in large bowl until it is soft.

2. Sift half of the icing sugar into the bowl, and then beat it with the butter until

the mixture is smooth.

3. Sift the rest of the icing sugar into the bowl and add one tablespoon of milk.

Beat the mixture until it is smooth and creamy.

4. If the mixture is too thick, add a little extra milk to make it more runny. Add

extra icing sugar if you need to thicken the mixture.

5. Add a couple of drops of food colouring if you want to.

6. Spread it onto your cake and voila!

cupcake with a buttercream frosting :)