"The most perfect icing to pipe to top on cupcakes not to mention the best tasting icing!. Providing you use salted butter or add in some salt you can leave this icing at room temperature for 48 hours. There's enough to frost 12 cupcakes. This goes perfectly with my posted wedding cupcake recipe"

Original is 12 servings

Metric US

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Ingredients

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3 cups confectioners'sugar
1 cup butter (use salted butter at room temperature and DO NOT USE MARGARINE!)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 tablespoons whipping cream (or as you need)

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (70.5 g)
Calories 333.8
Total Fat - 15.7 g
Saturated Fat - 10 g
Cholesterol - 42.1 mg
Sodium - 136 mg
Total Carbohydrate - 50.1 g
Dietary Fiber - 0 g
Sugars - 50 g
Protein - 0.2 g
Calcium - 5.9 mg
Iron - 0 mg
Vitamin C - 0 mg
Thiamin - 0 mg

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Step 1

Cream together the sugar with butter on low speed until well blended. Increase speed to medium and beat for another 2-3 minutes. Add vanilla and cream and continue to beat on medium speed for 1 minute more, adding more cream if needed for desired spreading/piping consistency.