Butter Cream Frosting Recipe - Easy to Make
Old Fashioned Southern Icing Recipe for Cakes and Cookies
Sep 5, 2009
Butter cream frosting is a good basic frosting recipe that is easy to make and does not call for any hard-to-find ingredients. This icing recipe takes only a few ingredients and most ingredients should be on hand in your pantry.
Butter cream frosting is rich and creamy especially when made with real butter, but margarine will work in the recipe. The frosting spreads on easily and can be thinned a bit with a little milk or thickened with powdered sugar. It’s also easy to color or tint this frosting for various themes or holidays.
Butter cream frosting works well on layered cakes, pound cakes, cupcakes, and cookies.
Southern Butter Cream Frosting Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine (1 stick)
- 1 box 10X powered sugar (around 3 cups if using a bulk bag)
- 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
- 2 to 3 TBS milk
- Food coloring
- Sugar sprinkles (for after the cookies are frosted)
Directions:
- Let the butter/margarine sit out and soften. That makes mixing much easier, and it’s also easier to get the correct consistency when adding the milk. If the butter is cold, then it gets too thin as it warms up. If this does happen, just add a little more powdered sugar.
- Cream the butter and powdered sugar, putting in about a half cup of powdered sugar at a time. If the powdered sugar looks pretty lumpy, it’s a good idea to sift it, so you don’t have sugar balls in the frosting. Mix well.
- Add the vanilla. Mix.
- Add around 1 TBS of milk and mix. Continue adding a tsp or so until the frosting is the right consistency for spreading. If you discover you’ve made it too thin, stir in a little sugar. If it’s too thick or starts to get too thick as you decorate add just a tiny bit more milk and stir.
- Add a couple of drops of food coloring and mix if you want a single color batch. It’s more fun, however, to divide the frosting into small bowls and let everyone make a color if frosting cookies or cupcakes. Be warned that some people (mostly boys) will put in all the colors and make ugly brown frosting. It still tastes great.
- If you want sugar sprinkles, then take some regular table sugar. Put a 1/4 to 1/2 cup or so in a zip lock bag. Add a little squirt of food coloring. Squeeze the bag until the sugar is all colored. It's fun also to divide the sugar out and make various colors like with the frosting.
- Spread the icing on your baked goodies. You should have enough frosting to do a cake or a batch of cookies or cupcakes.
- Sprinkle the colored sugar on the just frosted cookies, cupcakes or even cake. You may need to very lightly tap the sugar on top of the frosting with your fingers if the frosting is starting to set.
Baked Goods Recipes Good with Butter Cream Frosting:
Southern Sugar Cookies - These cookies are similar to the decorated sugar cookies at Wal-Mart and are perfect for frosting with buttercream icing.
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