Recipe for butter icing the cake and some designs to decorate the cake?

to do icing for birthday cake and desingn with colors to do some flower design and write wishes over it.

Recipe for butter icing the cake and some designs to decorate the cake?
Hope the website gives you some ideas, good luck



50 g (2oz) butter or margarine

100 g (4 oz) sieved icing sugar

flavouring and colouring as required





1 Cream fat, gradually add icing sugar and cream together.

2 Add flavouring and colouring. Double this quantity to sandwich and coat a 15-18 cm (6-7 inch) cake. Suggested flavourings:



1 Few drops vanilla essence.

2 Few drops almond essence.

3 Finely grated rind orange/lemon and 1 x 5 ml spoon (1 tsp.) orange/lemon juice.

4 2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp.) coffee essence.

5 25 g (1 oz) melted chocolate.

6 2 x 5 ml spoon (2 tsp.) cocoa and 1 x 2.5 ml spoon (? tsp.) vanilla essence.

7 Chopped walnuts.
Reply:butter -unsalted

Icing sugar

vanilla extract

Decoration

White base with drop of ink on it

Fresh cherry cut in half

Choclete vermicilli

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