I need frosting help!?!
I need frosting help!?
Can someone give me an easy recipe for a cupcake frosting?
Additional Details2 weeks ago
I need measurements, please! And I don't have a huge mixer, just the old school hand-held electric mixer.
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2 weeks ago
I need measurements, please! And I don't have a huge mixer, just the old school hand-held electric mixer.
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/3 cup whole milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1. In large bowl, cream the butter until smooth.
2. Add the powdered sugar, salt, milk, and vanilla, and mix until smooth and creamy.
That's an easy one for vanilla frosting with stuff you probably have sitting around the house. Chocolate frosting usually requires chopping and melting baking chocolate, which is time-consuming and also means picking up chocolate from the store if you don't keep it laying around.
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HEY THERE, CUPCAKE! By Clare Crespo
icing sugar, butter and hot water
i love to lick frosting, if you know what i mean ;]
The easiest recipe
-powdered sugar
-milk
-vanilla
Just mix them together (add a little of vanilla and be sure not to add too much milk)
Betty Crocker
j/k
Butter, powdered sugar, a bit of 'flavoring' (vanilla always works) and a bit of hot water. Use 'firm' butter (1 cube) and about 1 tablespoon water to one cup of sugar, then add sugar or water if it's not 'right' ... add the flavoring LAST and ENJOY!
Or you could make 'cream cheese frosting' using cream cheese instead of 'firm butter' ... but you don't need the flavoring for that, because the 'cream cheese' has it's own flavor that 'really works' as a frosting.
Powdered sugar, butter, melted chocolate, whip them all together.
Take a stick of butter and soften it. Then mix it with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add a TBSP or 2 of milk and about a TSP of vanilla. Then a box of powdered sugar. And mix some more. Thats the vanilla version. You can also add to it melted chocolate. A good quality chocolate bar or a little coffee. Depends on the cake flavor and what you like.
Crisco, powdered sugar, milk
i usually do this by "ear" whenever I need a great icing.....put about 1/2 cup of crisco in the mixing bowl, add powdered sugar while mixer is turning.....continue adding sugar.....if it gets too stiff, add a little bit of milk. You may have to taste a little and add more of the ingredients. When the consistancy is good and the taste is good......add 1 tsp. of coconut flavoring and mix a little more.....really is good.
Don't frost...whip! Here's a really fast and easy method.
My mom always made these for us when we were kids and I can still remember how delicious they tasted.
Prepare the cupcakes, when they have cooled well use a sharp knife and cut a rather deep circle out of the top of the cupcakes. Whip up until very stiff some 35% (heavy) whipping cream (add a tablespoon or two of icing sugar, to your taste), put a large spoonful of whipped cream in every "hole". Place the cut-out part on top of the whipping cream like a cap and press down gently to secure. Or, cut the cut-out part in half and place on top of cupcake like wings, one piece on one side and one piece on the other side, cut side down.
Sift soft icing sugar on top and serve!
I made these for my kids too and they prefer them to icing.
sugar frostings are so sweet . try using whipped cream one quarter cup of granulated sugar and a pinch of vanilla. put one pint of whipping cream in a glass bowl use an elecrtic mixer all the way on the highest setting as it thickens slowly pour your sugar in then add your vanilla when the cream peaks it is done you can see peeks on the beaters when you take tem out of the bowl also you can add a little food coloring if you like it's yummy!
I use one similiar to the one MorganWolf? posted but another easy and good one is buy the Betty Crocker Chocolate and use your mixer to whip it up...it'll double and taste like homemade.
PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE FROSTING
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter or margarine
2/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter. Stir in cocoa. Alternately add powdered sugar and milk, beating to spreading consistency. Add small amount additional milk, if needed. Stir in vanilla. About 2 cups frosting.
My sister learned to make this when she was ten, she still does it and she's never lost her touch. Thirty years later we still stir up a batch and eat it with our kids.
The easiest n cheapest recipe is to just go to the store n buy it?
try a glaze like you would put on a bundt cake (if thats spelled rite)
If you need something quick quick quick and don't have time to mess, get a jar or two of marshmallow cream and some sprinkles. Put the marshmallow cream in your mixing bowl and whip it a bit to make it easier to work with. Spread it with a hot knife or just spoon it on top of your cupcakes. You can tint it with foodcoloring when you mix it if you want to.
I did this once when I forgot to prepare a cupcake order - and it was a huge hit.