Perfect Butter Icing Food

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QUICK AND ALMOST-PROFESSIONAL BUTTERCREAM ICING



Quick and Almost-Professional Buttercream Icing image

After failing to find the perfect recipe for buttercream icing, I found one that worked for me and then added my own two cents.

Provided by xoshadyxo

Categories     Desserts     Frostings and Icings     Buttercream

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 5

½ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
2 tablespoons milk
3 drops food coloring, or as needed

Steps:

  • Cream room temperature butter with a hand mixer, the paddle attachment of a stand mixer, or a wooden spoon until smooth and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until fully incorporated. Beat in vanilla extract.
  • Pour in milk and beat for an additional 3 to 4 minutes. Add food coloring, if using, and beat for thirty seconds until smooth or until desired color is reached.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 227.9 calories, Carbohydrate 31.5 g, Cholesterol 30.8 mg, Fat 11.6 g, Protein 0.2 g, SaturatedFat 7.3 g, Sodium 83.7 mg, Sugar 31 g

BASIC BUTTERCREAM ICING



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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.

Provided by BBC Food

Categories     Cakes and baking

Yield Makes enough icing to fill 1 medium cake, 6 cupcakes or 12 fairy cakes

Number Of Ingredients 8

140g/5oz butter, softened
280g/10oz icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
¼ tsp vanilla extract
few drops food colouring
1 large orange, zest and 2 tbsp juice
25g/1oz cocoa powder
75g/2½oz milk or dark chocolate, melted

Steps:

  • Beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth.
  • 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.
  • Stir in the food colouring, if using, until well combined.
  • For the orange buttercream variation, omit the milk and vanilla from the basic recipe. Stir in the orange zest and juice until thoroughly combined.
  • 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.

BUTTERCREAM ICING



Buttercream icing image

Foolproof cake frosting requires just butter and icing sugar - try out different flavourings and use our guide for quantities

Provided by Caroline Hire - Food writer

Categories     Afternoon tea, Dessert

Time 10m

Yield Makes enough to ice 12 cupcakes/fill and cover a 20cm cake

Number Of Ingredients 7

600g icing sugar, sifted
300g unsalted or salted butter, softened
finely grated lemon zest
finely grated orange zest
a dash of vanilla extract
few drops food colouring
cocoa powder, to taste

Steps:

  • Beat 600g sifted icing sugar and 300g butter together with your chosen flavouring and colouring if using, add 2-3 tablespoons of boiling water to loosen and beat until smooth.
  • Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe onto cupcakes or smear in the middle and over the top of a 20cm cake using a palette knife.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 284 calories, Fat 20.6 grams fat, SaturatedFat 13 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 25 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 25 grams sugar, Protein 0.1 grams protein, Sodium 0.4 milligram of sodium

BUTTERCREAM ICING



Buttercream Icing image

An easy to make egg-free frosting that works great for decorating cookies for holidays, birthdays and parties. When you need to add coloring to icing, use color paste. If you use liquid coloring, you may need to add more confectioner's sugar.

Provided by Sharon Gerstman

Categories     Desserts     Frostings and Icings     Buttercream

Time 15m

Yield 20

Number Of Ingredients 5

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 cups confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons milk

Steps:

  • In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, and vanilla. Blend in confectioners' sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the milk, and continue mixing until light and fluffy. Keep icing covered until ready to decorate.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 180.7 calories, Carbohydrate 24 g, Cholesterol 12.3 mg, Fat 9.8 g, Protein 0.1 g, SaturatedFat 4.2 g, Sodium 33.6 mg, Sugar 23.6 g

BASIC BUTTERCREAM ICING



Basic Buttercream Icing image

Provided by Food Network

Categories     dessert

Time 15m

Yield 6 cups

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 cup unsalted butter or margarine, room temperature (use vegetable shortening when pure white icing is needed)
1/2 cup milk, room temperature
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla or other desired flavoring
2 pounds confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • Combine all the ingredients in large mixing bowl and mix at slow speed until smooth. If stiffer icing is needed, or if the weather is very warm, add a little extra sugar. This recipe is enough to cover and fill a 9- by 13-inch sheet cake or two 9-inch layers.

VANILLA BUTTER ICING



Vanilla Butter Icing image

Make and share this Vanilla Butter Icing recipe from Food.com.

Provided by dale7793

Categories     Dessert

Time 10m

Yield 1 batch

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 1/2 cups icing sugar, sifted
60 g butter, softened
2 tablespoons boiling water
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Steps:

  • Place icing sugar and butter in a bowl and add boiling water slowly, stop when it is the consistency you want.
  • Stir until it spreadable and add vanilla essence.
  • Ices a 20cm cake.
  • Add 1/4 cup cocoa powder for a chocolate version.

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