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Creamy Butter Frosting Recipe

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Cupcake With Creamy Butter Frosting

Frosting Image © Diana Rattray
This is a basic butter frosting, made with butter, vanilla, sifted confectioners' sugar, and milk or light cream.

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 pound (3 1/2 cups) sifted confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons milk or light cream, or to make smooth and spreadable

Preparation:

Cream butter, salt, and vanilla, beating with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the confectioners' sugar gradually, beating after each addition. Add 3 tablespoons milk or light cream, beating until smooth. Beat in more milk until desired spreading consistency is reached and the frosting is spreadable. Makes about 2 1/3 cups of frosting, enough to frost tops and sides of of an 8-inch 2-layer cake or a 10-inch tube or bundt cake, or about 1 dozen cupcakes.

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User Reviews

 4 out of 5
Butter Frosting, Member love.heather

I was quite uncertain about this recipe as I was making it simply because the amount of butter used seemed much too little as I was adding the icing sugar. But once I added milk (only 3 tbsps) it became a wonderful consistency. My only issue for there was that the icing was very, very sweet (3 1/2 cups of icing sugar, of course it was sweet!). I was worried that on my chocolate chocolate-chip cupcakes it would be too much so I also added about 3/4 tbsp. Baja Rosa (a tequila & strawberry cream liqueur) to the mix. It worked marvelously, the tequila balancing out the sweetness and added a pleasant hint of strawberry. I also found that I was able to ice roughly 24 medium cupcakes using the original amounts, so that was nice. (: Overall, loved the consistency and ease of this recipe. Great job!

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