Mares Most Delicious Icing Recipes

THE BEST BUTTERCREAM FROSTING RECIPE

Steps:

• Get out the salted butter! Trust me and use salted butter, it's the secret ingredient!
• Beat the butter until it is light and creamy. This is important as you are adding the icing sugar next. If the butter isn't creamy you can get lumps in the icing.
• Add in the icing sugar. Again, if you are like me and can taste stale icing sugar, you will need a fresh bag.
• Add in the cream.. I used 4 tablespoons for my preference, you adjust to what you want.
• Stiffer icing = less cream. Lighter icing = more cream. Adjust the amount to your liking by adding one tablespoon at a time until the desired consistency is reached.
• Add the vanilla then keep mixing it until fluffy and thoroughly combined.

EASIEST, MOST DELICIOUS MERINGUE BUTTERCREAM

Steps:

• Place the egg whites and sugar into a metal bowl and set over a pan filled with about 2 inches of simmering water. Heat, stirring frequently, until the temperature of the egg whites reaches 140 degrees. They will feel very hot to the touch.
• Transfer the heated egg whites and sugar to a large mixing bowl or stand mixer. Mix at high speed (or as high as you can go without egg flying out of the bowl) until they have reached their maximum volume, 5 to 10 minutes. Mix on medium or medium-high speed while pinching off small pieces of butter and throwing them in. Mix in vanilla if using. The buttercream may look like it is breaking down, but keep on mixing and it will come back together.

MARE'S MOST DELICIOUS ICING

Steps:

• beat for a full 10 minutes( very important) the following 3 ingredients: butter or margarine, crisco, granulated sugar (or use 1 cup packed brown sugar for a maple icing).
• heat milk in microwave till very hot (not boiling).
• while beating. add hot milk to sugar and butter mixture very slowly.(I mean about 1/8 of a cup at a time -- all the while beating it well --
• after all of the milk has been beaten in, beat in vanilla extract.
• this is delicious (the brown sugar icing is wonderful with chocolate cake especially good with butter pecan or spice cake).