Vanilla Butter Icing

Submitted by dale7793

"This is my favourite icing. You can make it in vanilla or chocolate flavours."

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: batch

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups icing sugar, sifted
• 60 g butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons boiling water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

directions

1. Place icing sugar and butter in a bowl and add boiling water slowly, stop when it is the consistency you want.
2. Stir until it spreadable and add vanilla essence.
3. Ices a 20cm cake.
4. Add 1/4 cup cocoa powder for a chocolate version.

Reviews

[Jora6512]

I am a sloppy baker -- I didn't measure. But it turned out terrific anyway! I was trying to double the recipe. Here's what I did: 1 stick (1/4 lb) butter, softened (That's about 115 gm) spash of vanilla mix powdered sugar till stiff add hot water till right consistency. I was able to ice 24 cupcakes with those amounts. Both kids gave the icing a thumbs up.

 

[Deantini]

This icing was just lovely and perfect! My daughter made if for some cup cakes she wanted to ice, and the icing really married well with the cup cakes.

 

[Jessie_loves_desser]

I am sure this is a good recipe but i did not have icing sugar so I used granulated sugaar and the icing was not very good and it did not have a good texture and tasted to much like butter. Anyway it is probably my fault.

 

[Matt4197]

This was a really nice icing! I subbed coconut extract for the vanilla and iced Butter Pecan cupcakes with it! Yum! Thanks for the recipe!

 

[Julie-Anne S.]

My family agreed that this recipe had way too much butter, so if you are health conscious watch out.