Buttercream Frosting
Recipe: #34627
April 04, 2020
Categories: Desserts, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Sugar, Butter/Margarine Kosher Dairy, more
"A never-fail, standard recipe that will go well on just about any cake. Leftover frosting can be refrigerated for several days or frozen, for later use on cupcakes, cookies, etc."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (20.6 g)
- Calories 87
- Total Fat - 3.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 2 g
- Cholesterol - 8.3 mg
- Sodium - 38.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0 g
- Sugars - 15.2 g
- Protein - 0.1 g
- Calcium - 2.8 mg
- Iron - 0 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine 1/3 of the sugar with the butter and salt in a large bowl.
Step 2
Blend the vanilla, 2 tablespoons of milk, and the remaining sugar into the mixture.
Step 3
Gradually stir in the remaining milk until desired spreading consistency is reached.
Step 4
To color, blend in about 8-10 drops of food coloring.
Step 5
This makes enough frosting for two 9"-round layer cakes. For a more generous supply of frosting, increase all of the ingredients by ¼.
Tips
No special items needed.