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Basic Buttercream Icing

Name: Basic Buttercream Icing
Prep time: 15 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 150g butter, softened; 2 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (300g); 1-2 Tbsp hot water; ½ - 1 tsp of vanilla essence (or flavour of your choice, optional); food colouring (optional)

4.6

Preparation

15 mins

Bake

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

This is a wonderful recipe for light and fluffy buttercream icing that also tastes great. Pipe it onto cupcakes and it will look like a professional baker lives at your house!

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

150g butter, softened
2 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar (300g)
1-2 Tbsp hot water
½ - 1 tsp of vanilla essence (or flavour of your choice, optional)
food colouring (optional)

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Reviews

210

What did you think of this recipe?

Jhon

Love It!!

Christine

How could I change this to be a mocha flavour, how much coffee and cocoa and would I take anything out?CHELSEA: it would depend on your taste. Suggest you adjust to your taste and preferred consistency. Let us know how you get on!

Bella

Does it turn out firm?CHELSEA: Hi there, yes reasonably firm. It's firm enough to pipe onto cupcakes but still light and fluffy.

Gracie Space Youtuber

Sub to my yt channel please Gracie space unicorn forehead and add chealseas chocolate cake recipe and on top butter cream

Georgia Stewart

I love this recipe of icing it's super easy to do and doesn't require any skill at all (which is handy for amateurs like me)!!!

caity boo boo bear

amazing made my cupcake absolutely divineee ;))))

... hi

...hi! Very detailed recipe, is this good for christmas cookies???

Ava

Hi there, would I need to double the recipe for a cake? Please answer soon

Angeline Cook

Ii sounds nice and easy but was wondering if butter melted after being left in pantry overnight?Thank you in advance.

Abigail

Delicious recipe is perfect for every type of cake. I use every time and it is perfect. It is smooth and yummy. I cant believe its a 4 star and not 5!

Method

Beat the butter until smooth, pale and fluffy. Gradually beat in the Chelsea Icing Sugar, half a cup at a time.

Add the vanilla essence (or other flavoured essence and/or colouring of your choice), with enough of the hot water to make a creamy mixture, beating between each addition until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cooled cupcakes or spread over a cooled cake.

Note: When adding food colouring, add it a drop at a time and mix well before adding more, otherwise you might end up with a brighter result than you desire! Colours tend to darken a little as the icing sets too.