Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing.
Allow to cool until lukewarm. Add the butter and beat with an electric whisk for 5 minutes. Beat in the icing sugar and then the buttermilk. Place in a piping bag and pipe onto cake.
The simplest frosting of all, glacé icing, is just powdered sugar and water. We like to drizzle this thin, glossy glaze over homemade scones or coffee cake. There are so many different types of i ...