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How to make Buttercream Icing

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Buttercream icing can be used as frosting for layering a cake, to cover a cake or to make fancy roses and patterns. In this post, I am going to show you how to make your own Buttercream icing.
 Below is my own recipe for Buttercream icing, its sweet but not too sweet as I added lime juice to balance out the sweetness in the Buttercream because of the icing sugar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buttercream Icing Recipe

   Ingredients

  • 250g Butter/Margarine
  • 6 cups Icing sugar (plus more in case you need to adjust the consistency)
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract   
  • 1tablespoon Lime Juice











 Procedure: Sift 4 cups of icing sugar into a bowl and set aside. In an electric mixer bowl, cream butter until pale, add vanilla extract and lime juice. 


Alternate the milk with the icing sugar and mix thoroughly at each interval. Adjust the consistency with the remaining icing sugar if need be .
For layering a cake, a slightly runny consistency will do just fine.  While for frosting or crumb-coating a cake, a slightly hard consistency that forms a peak when mixed will be great. For Buttercream roses and other piping styles, a medium-hard consistency is the way to go as this helps to make them dry faster. Just make sure it aint too hard to expel from the piping bag.
When done, you can colour the buttercream to any shade of colour you want. Here, gel paste or powdered (makes sure you mix thoroughly) food colours will be best but if you are using a liquid food colour, do well to add more icing sugar to your buttercream in order not to have a too-runny buttercream.
 Here is how mine turned out! And see my next post on how I put it to use in my "How to make a Basket weave pattern cake"

 

Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed this post. Kindly place your comments and questions below.

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