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French Coffee Icing

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoons instant coffee dissolved
  2. a teaspoon salt
  3. 4 tablespoons boiling water
  4. Sugar
  5. 1 cup butter
  6. 1 teaspoon rum
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. 1 Beat: 1 cup butter until soft.
  2. 2 Beat in: a teaspoon salt and 2 tablespoons instant coffee dissolved in 4 tablespoons boiling water.
  3. 3 Gradually beat in: 24 cups unsifted confectioners’ sugar.
  4. Beat for 2 minutes.
  5. Add: 1 teaspoon rum, let stand for 5 minutes, then beat again.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan