Buttercream icing

motherkitty

You can use half or quarter of the amounts if you think your recipe is going to give you too much butter cream. It is easier if you start off with the butter softened a little - but not melted! I have used stork margarine, butter and Clover and all have been fine. Think I prefer using Clover as it is easier to mix(shouldn't need any milk) and I rather like the flavour. You can use an electric mixer but go easy at first or all the icing sugar will fly everywhere!
I usually start off with a couple of tablespoons of butter and one of icing sugar in a plastic jug and start off slow with an electric mixer or a hand blender with the balloon whisk attachment on if you have one of those. Then you can add more sugar until you have the taste and consistency that you want.
Hope this helps.

mrs_marty

The recipe I use is icing sugar, butter, milk and a wee drop vanilla essence. The milk is just tablespoon or so x

RazWaz

I normally only do this for chocolate cupcakes, it's just butter and icing sugar mixed together, then melted chocolate mixed in.

Just icing sugar and butter will work though, it's called buttercream

jcr16

well i sort of winged it and omg they are gorgeous.

i used willow butter , ok so not strickly a butter i don't think but i love it. i left it on the side for an hour before use. not sure of qty's i mixed in some icing suger and just kept mixing it with handblender till it was right texture then i put a table spoon of milk in and some drops of vanilla and coupld of drops of pink colouring, added more icing and mixed again.

wow , gorgeous. i pipped 3 cakes then refilled bag, but over filled it and it went pop! i was gutted. only bag i had as well. so three look great, the other 19 look like blobs of pink stuff. but the taste is amazing.

when i replace my piping bag i'll def doing this more.

Penelope_Penguin

jcr16 wrote: »

well i sort of winged it and omg they are gorgeous.

Glad it went well :T As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to keep recipe ideas together.

jcr16

oohh, i didn't even think to look for an exsiting thread. i will def be searching this for recipes. the cakes have gone down a storm with my family. i just need to buy a new piping bag and away i go. Ebay here i come,lol.

pinkteapot

Just posted another thread relating to friends we have coming to stay in March. Anyway, another question for that weekend...

Planning on making cupcakes. Normally I follow the buttercream recipe on the back of my icing sugar box and just splodge it on with a knife. However, I recently got a piping set so I'd like to make them neater by piping the buttercream on. However, the buttercream I make up is very stiff and think it'll be hard to pipe or will just burst the bag.

What buttercream or other icing recipe do you use for piping cupcakes?

greenbee

vanilla - 125g butter, 250g icing sugar, 5ml vanilla essence, 1 tablespoon water if needed.
chocolate - 250g butter, 250g icing sugar, 125g melted chocolate.

In both cases, mix together until light and fluffy. I put it in the kenwood and leave for ages and ages... do make sure your butter is up to room temperature before you start though!

PennyGSD

You could just make up your usual recipe but leave it somewhere warm for a few mins as the warmer the butter, the softer the mix?

pinkteapot

Thanks both.