Buttercream Icing Recipe

Buttercream Icing Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup of white solid vegetable shortening

1 teaspoon of clear flavoring like vanilla, butter or almond
4 tablespoons of liquid* (see explanation below)
1 lb pure cane confectioners sugar

Cream shortening, flavoring and water. Add powder sugar and mix on medium speed until all ingredients have been thoroughly mixed together.

*For your liquid you can use water, milk, flavored coffee creamer to name a few. I use non dairy creamer mixed with boiling water. It is non dairy so your iced cake can sit out and you won't have to worry about the icing spoiling.

You can double, triple, quadruple this recipe to make more at one time.

Tips:

Don't mix your icing for to long or on too high a speed.

You don't want to incorporate air bubbles into your icing.

 Use a clear flavoring so your icing is white. If you used the brown vanilla your finished icing would be an ivory color, which is ok it that is what you want.

If you are coloring your icing it is best to start with a white icing.