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Buttercream

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Cooking time

Prep: 10 minutes Cook:

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Enough for 8 reasonably siized muffins.

Buttercream is a pretty richly flavoured topping for cakes.

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Ingredients

  • 175g of Icing Sugar
  • 75g of Butter

Optional

  • Cocoa Powder
  • Food Colouring
  • Vanilla/ Mint/ Strawberry (Any is fine) Extract

Method

  1. After weighing out ingrediants, put them all in the bowl.

  2. Mix it all until it is pretty stiff.

  3. Now you can put it on your cake! (Or just eat the buttercream by itself, I don't really recommend it though...)

  4. Don't forget the washing up!

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stephweth21's picture
stephweth21
29th Apr, 2014
5.05
I have always used this recipe for buttercream. Consistently good and easily adapted. Enough for 12 cupcakes or the top icing of 1 cake. Should you want a very large filling in a sandwich cake plus enough for the top then I would suggest making a little extra.
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