Butter-Cream Icing For The Birthday Cupcakes...yum

Hey!

So my previous blog post had the cupcake recipe and who just eats plain cupcakes? So here is a butter cream icing recipe that I used on the cupcakes and I think it came out great.

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Butter Cream Icing

Ingredients ;

280 g of icing sugar

Just over a cup (140 g) of butter

1 - 2 tbsp of milk

A few drops of food colouring (I didn't have any so my icing was white)

1. Mix the butter until it's soft and creamy (I left the butter out the entire preparation of the actual baking of the cupcakes so the butter was already really soft).
2. Add half of the sugar to the butter and beat until smooth.
3. Then add the rest of the sugar with the milk until it's creamy and smooth.
4. Add 2 - 4 drops of food colouring if you want to.
   
5. Leave in the fridge for an hour or half an hour (I left the icing in the fridge over-night but that was because I wanted to ice in the morning).
6. Decorate your cakes.
7. Put the cakes in a nice box if you're like me and had to give them to a friend as a birthday present. I shredded coloured paper and just filled the box with it and it came out really nice. 
8. Take a picture and give to a friend / family member or just eat them yourself...

I also have new bedding that I won't even be sleeping in tonight because I'm with my chummie tonight, so I can't wait to use the bedding, also partly because it goes so much better with my room compared to my old ones and they just look nicer overall. Anyway, tweet me your cupcake pictures in a box or just a plate if you want to and tell me if you liked them.

That's it

Kalli xxx