Effortless Butter Cream Icing
Effortless butter cream icing works great to frost a cake, decorate cookies, icing just about anything. You can change the flavor by using different extracts. This colors well too, I prefer to use the gel’s to color mine but the regular food coloring will work. this recipe for butter cream icing is very simple to make and not overly sweet. We use this recipe for almost every cake we make!
Effortless Butter Cream Icing
Ingredients:
1 pound of powdered sugar
1 cup softened butter
1 tsp vanilla or other flavored extract
3-4 tablespoons milk
Coloring if desired (use color before milk step or color will water down icing)
Directions:
Cream together the butter and sugar. 
Add the vanilla and mix well. Slowly add the milk until the icing reaches your desired consistency.
- 1 pound of powdered sugar
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 tsp vanilla or other flavored extract
- 3-4 tablespoons milk
- Coloring if desired (use color before milk step or color will water down icing)
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Add the vanilla and mix well.
- Slowly add the milk until the icing reaches your desired consistency.
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