Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Preparation-10mins

Total-10mins

Servings-12

For many people, cake is just the delivery vehicle for the real star of the show—the frosting. If you agree, you’ll love this five-star buttercream frosting recipe. It’s rich, sweet and foolproof. With 4 ingredients and 10 minutes of effort, this vanilla buttercream frosting will be ready to turn any cake, cookie or cupcake into a special-occasion dessert, never underestimate the power of a good frosting! Memorize this recipe and you’ll always have a frosting to complement whatever’s for dessert.

Ingredients

3 cups buttered sugar

1/3 cup softened butter

1 &1/2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 to 2 tablespoons of milk

Steps

1) In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and butter with spoon or electric mixer on low speed. Stir in vanilla and 1 tablespoon of the milk.

2) Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time. If frosting becomes too thin, beat in a small amount of powdered sugar. Frosts 13x9-inch cake generously, or fills and frosts an 8- or 9-inch two-layer cake.

Expert Tips of this recipe

• Allow your butter to soften at room temperature so it easily beats up smoothly with the powdered  sugar.
• A real buttercream frosting takes little time to make, can be tinted with food colouring (use paste or gel, not liquid food colour), and will hold up to one week if tightly covered and refrigerated.
• Use a real vanilla; imitations are not recommended. If you can find a vanilla bean paste it’s well worth the investment. 
• The role of vanilla is not only for its flavour value, it also enhances the sweetness of the sugar, so bumping up the vanilla allows you to decrease the amount of sugar in recipes.
• It’s easy to vary the flavour of this core recipe: stir in a dash of almond extract or grated citrus zest.
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• Nutrition

Calories

 

170

Calories from Fat

 -

45

Total Fat-

5g

8%

Saturated Fat-

2 1/2g

13%

Trans Fat-

0g

Cholesterol-

15mg

5%

Sodium-

35mg

1%

Potassium-

0mg

0%

Total Carbohydrate-

30g

10%

Dietary Fibre-

0g

0%

Sugars-

29g

Protein-

0g

More about this recipe

• Four simple ingredients, sugar, butter, vanilla and milk come together in a homemade frosting recipe that proves the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Hundreds of home cooks and bakers have used this recipe for decorating cakes, filling layer cakes or topping off a pan of brownies. Before you begin, check out this step by step tutorial on making frosting. You’ll learn that a perfect buttercream frosting recipe starts with room-temperature butter that can still hold its shape but is starting to soften at the edges. Test it by pressing a finger into the butter; if it gives and your finger leaves an indent, it’s ready to go. Once you’ve mastered vanilla buttercream frosting, expand your skill set with more frosting recipes.