| Home Made Frosting |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 05:00 |
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Are you looking for that “just like in the store” type of frosting? Do you know how they make it? Are you sure you are going to eat it once you know what's in it? Basically, it is vegetable shortening with sugar, flavouring and colour (sorry, I’m Canadian, so I spell that funny British way). Vegetable shortening Icing sugar (the really fine powdery stuff) Flavouring (vanilla, banana, cherry, peppermint, rum, whatever) Food colouring Water. Measure out 2 cups of shortening into a bowl. Begin beating with a blender and add 2 teaspoons of flavouring (ok, depending on the strength of the flavouring you are using, you might want to adjust this) and a few drops of food colouring. Then begin to add the icing sugar. Add enough until you are satisfied with the taste and sweetness. If the frosting is too firm, you can add water, 1 tablespoon at a time, blending well each time, until you get to the consistency you want. |
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i don't think that i need that consistency.
Although chocolate butter cream frosting is essentially what you've described, where the vegetable shortening is a lot less butter.
3 tbsp. softened butter
1 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa
2-3 tbsp. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
You could easily replace the butter with vegetable shortening.