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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)

4.7

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

204

What did you think of this recipe?

Jill porter

Fabulous, thank you

Sheryl

Best icing ever on mandarin cake

Yasmin

I've used this recipe a couple of times now and it's always so good. The only thing I would change is putting the water in, I find that even if you only use one table spoon of hot water it makes it too soft so I always end up putting more icing sugar in. Overall I would recommend this recipe to anyone but I would tell them to skip the water.

Unknown

So good! Really was the icing of the cake! (Ha, get it?)

sophie

it worked very well thank you!

jessica howie

good

Tayla

Omg it's so good. I love it so much. Best recipe ever.

man

Good

JENZ

Hi ChelseaCan this recipe be used under fondant?CHELSEA: Generally buttercream icing can be used under fondant, would be interesting to know the result.

saskia

one wordperfect

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.