Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Smooth buttercream frosting that can be used to fill and cover your cakes or pipe onto cupcakes
Ingredients
- 340 g Icing Sugar (12oz)
- 170 g Room Temperature Salted Butter (6oz)
- 1.5 tbsp Milk
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Favouring or favouring of your choice
Instructions
- Sift your icing sugar into your mixing bowl to get out any lumps. Then add your butter, milk and flavouring.
- Either using a hand mixer or stand mixer set your mixer onto a low speed until the ingredients start to combine. This will stop the icing sugar escaping from the bowl.
- Once the ingredients have started to combine turn your mixer up to a medium / high speed and let your buttercream mix for at least 5 minutes.
- After 5 minutes you should have a smooth, creamy buttercream mixture. Using food gel colours you can now add a colour of your choice, before adding it onto your cakes.
Notes
Buttercream naturally has a yellow colour due to the butter. If you are looking to create a white buttercream check out how to lighten your buttercream here!