Simple Buttercream
Simple buttercream (sometimes called American buttercream, mock cream, or butter icing) is a type of icing or frosting used inside cakes, as a coating, and as decoration.
Source and licence
"Simple Buttercream" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Simple_Buttercream, revision 4517708), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Simple_Buttercream&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Ingredients
- 200 g (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla extract
- 450 g (4 cups) sifted powdered sugar
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) milk
Method
- Cream together butter and vanilla using a mixer.
- Beat in powdered sugar one cup at a time, scraping sides and bottom of bowl regularly. Mixture will be very dry.
- When all the sugar is incorporated, add milk and beat until incorporated.