Butter Icing
Ingredients
500 g butter, room temperature
1 kg icing sugar
5 ml vanilla essence
A little milk or water or cream
Directions
- Beat the butter in a large bowl with an electric beater or wooden spoon. Add the icing sugar a little at a time and beat well. Add the vanilla and thin the mixture out with a little milk or water to achieve a spreadable consistency.
- Add the icing sugar a little at a time and beat well.
- Add the vanilla and thin the mixture out with a little milk or water to achieve a spreadable consistency
Notes
- Flavour variations: coffee (mix a little instant coffee with hot water)
lemon zest/juice
orange zest/juice
cocoa (heat the cocoa by mixing with boiling water to enhance taste and colour of cocoa)
cream cheese (replace half of the butter with cream cheese)
fruit purees (blend fruit and add in place of the water/milk/cream
any other essences