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Posted by Wonko The Sane (Member # 2945) on :

I need to know how to make plain white homemade icing... thanks [Hail]

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Like a buttercream frosting?

Lets see, maybe 4 cups pwd sugar, 1/4-1/2 cup butter, 1 tsp vanilla, some milk to get it to the right consistency. But that is not very white.

I bet you could find a recipe on the web... be right back.

Posted by Polly (Member # 6044) on :

If you want it to be pure white, you have to use shortening, not butter or margarine, and clear vanilla extract.

http://cake.allrecipes.com/az/BestWhiteIcingEver.asp

[ March 09, 2004, 07:23 PM: Message edited by: Polly ]

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,161,147171-240196,00.html

First thing I came up with.

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Plain white homeade icing with not alot of flavor is just powdered sugar mixed with very hot water, but it has to be alot of sugar, proportionately. You just mix until it looks right, and remember it hardens a bit when it cools.

Some people really love this icing, esp. on cookies.

Posted by Wonko The Sane (Member # 2945) on :

thank you [Hail]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

Icing like for doughnuts or frosting like for cake? For icing, we just fill a cereal bowl with powdered sugar and first add a teaspoon of vanilla. That will give you an idea of how much liquid impacts the sugar. Then add milk in little splashes, stirring thoroughly.

For frosting, I put 1/3 cup room temperature butter in a bowl, add 2 cups powdered sugar, mix as much as I can (it will be pretty pasty), add 1/4 cup milk and any vanilla desired (if you are taking someones suggestion of quadrupling the vanilla, you won't need so much milk). This will make it very thin. Now slowly stir in 2 more cups of powdered sugar. Adjust consistency by either adding more sugar (to dry it) or milk in teaspoon increments (to moisten it.)

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

My mother's frosting recipe (yum)

1 box powdered sugar
1 stick butter/margarine
A little milk to achieve proper consistency
vanilla extract to taste
^^^^^^^
can also be ANY flavor extract, allowing for all sorts of fun frosting flavors.

Mix sugar, butter, and extract using a hand mixer. Add milk in tiny increments until the proper consistency is reached.

Frost cake.

Fight with siblings over who gets to lick the bowl, beaters, spoons, etc.