Butter Icing
Ingredients:
600g icing sugar, sifted 300g unsalted butter, softened.
Optional Extras:
Finely grated lemon zest
Finely grated orange zest
A dash of vanilla extract
Few drops food colouring
Cocoa powder to taste.
Method
- Beat the icing sugar and butter together, with your chosen flavouring and coloring if using until smooth. Choose unsalted butter for a celebration cake. Salted is good for cupcakes. Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe onto cupcakes or smear in the middle and over the top of a 20 cm cake using a palette knife.