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Buttercream Frosting

The perfect frosting/icing for cakes, this is the ideal kind of frosting for decorating.
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Servings: 2 Cups
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 3/4 cup butter softened (150gm) (5oz)
  • 2 cups confectioner's icing sugar (250gm) (8oz)
  • 1 tsp. vanilla essence
  • 2 tsp. hot water

Method
 

  1. Beat together the butter and icing with a mixer until well combined, smooth and creamy.Add the vanilla and hot water.Beat some more and use!

Notes

If you want it to have a chocolaty taste and colour, substitute the vanilla essence with 2 tbsp. cocoa powder. For a different colour, just add a few drops of the colour of your choice and mix.