Vanilla Butter Icing
"This is my favourite icing. You can make it in vanilla or chocolate flavours."
photo by Matt4197
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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1 batch
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups icing sugar, sifted
- 60 g butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons boiling water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
directions
- Place icing sugar and butter in a bowl and add boiling water slowly, stop when it is the consistency you want.
- Stir until it spreadable and add vanilla essence.
- Ices a 20cm cake.
- Add 1/4 cup cocoa powder for a chocolate version.
Questions & Replies
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Why do we need to add hot water to butter icing ?
Reviews
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I am a sloppy baker -- I didn't measure. But it turned out terrific anyway! I was trying to double the recipe. Here's what I did: 1 stick (1/4 lb) butter, softened (That's about 115 gm) spash of vanilla mix powdered sugar till stiff add hot water till right consistency. I was able to ice 24 cupcakes with those amounts. Both kids gave the icing a thumbs up. -
This icing was just lovely and perfect! My daughter made if for some cup cakes she wanted to ice, and the icing really married well with the cup cakes. -
I am sure this is a good recipe but i did not have icing sugar so I used granulated sugaar and the icing was not very good and it did not have a good texture and tasted to much like butter. Anyway it is probably my fault. -
This was a really nice icing! I subbed coconut extract for the vanilla and iced Butter Pecan cupcakes with it! Yum! Thanks for the recipe!
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My family agreed that this recipe had way too much butter, so if you are health conscious watch out.
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Tweaks
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This was a really nice icing! I subbed coconut extract for the vanilla and iced Butter Pecan cupcakes with it! Yum! Thanks for the recipe!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
dale7793
Australia
I have a passion for healthy and simple dishes with lots of vegetables, although I love a treat every now and again also, especially ice cream!