How to make the perfect Buttercream Icing
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How to make the perfect Buttercream Icing
How to make the perfect Buttercream Icing/Frosting. Want to make Buttercream? Unsure. Watch this baking tutorial. You will learn how to make the perfect buttercream in under 30 minutes. Yummy butter, scrummy sugar, mixed together they make a tasty buttercream. An Ideal video for the first time baker. Some people call it icing, other people call it frosting. Perfect on top of cakes, cupcakes, muffins, whatever dessert you want to make, Buttercream is essential to know how to make. Think of it as Bakery 101. You only need to watch this video to learn how to make the perfect buttercream.
TIMINGS:
• Prep Time: 15 mins.
• Total Time: 15 mins.
SERVINGS:
Makes enough to fill 1 large cake or 12 standard size cupcakes.
INGREDIENTS:
• ⅔ cup (150g/5oz) butter, softened.
• 2¾ cups (340g/11 ½oz) icing/powdered sugar, sieved.
• 1-2 tbsps milk or water.
• ½ tsp of vanilla extract or flavour of choice.
• Optional: Gel colouring, if using.
METHOD:
1. Beat the softened butter in a medium-size bowl until it turns white.
2. This should take about 5 minutes.
3. Scrape down the unwhipped butter from the sides of the bowl and whip again for 1 minute.
4. Add two tablespoons of sifted icing/powdered sugar.
5. Whisk for 1 minute before adding another two tablespoons and whisk again. Do this until all the icing sugar has been incorporated.
6. Using a spatula scrape down the sides of the bowl.
7. Add 1-2 tablespoons of milk or water depending on the consistency you want.
8. Add the vanilla extract and the gel colour if you're colouring your buttercream.
9. Whisk again for about 5 minutes.
10. Spread out on your cake or place in a piping bag to decorate.
11. Mmm Scrummy!!!
STORAGE:
• Buttercream can be kept at room temperature in an airtight container for 2-3 days.
• Buttercream can be stored in a fridge for up to two weeks.
• Buttercream can be frozen for 3 months.