Mom's Buttercream Icing
Recipe: #15015
October 22, 2014
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Layer, Cookies, 5 Ingredients Or Less, 5-Minute Prep, One-Pot Meal, Birthday, Christmas Gluten-Free, Kosher, Low Sodium, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Cut Out, Sugar, more
"Traditional home recipe for a 3 layer or 11x17 sheet cake. Amounts shown for smaller cakes below. This is not "bakery" icing, which has shortening in it."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (242.4 g)
- Calories 968.6
- Total Fat - 20.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 13.1 g
- Cholesterol - 55.4 mg
- Sodium - 196.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 201 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0 g
- Sugars - 200.6 g
- Protein - 0.7 g
- Calcium - 25.8 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Blend together butter and powdered sugar. Add milk and vanilla and mix until smooth
Step 2
For a double Layer or 9 x 13 sheet cake: 2 cups powdered sugar, just under 1/4 cup butter, and milk to desired consistency.
Step 3
For a single layer cake or 9 x 9 sheet cake: 1 cup powdered sugar, just under 2 tablespoons of butter, and milk to desired consistency.
Step 4
For Cookies: Prepare icing then put into separate bowls to add different food colorings.
Step 5
Fresh Strawberry Icing: Omit milk and vanilla, add fresh strawberries one at a time, using mixer, until reach desired consistency.
Tips
No special items needed.