Basic butter icing
Butter cream for sponges, with a chocolate variation. Covers one 18 cm sponge
A light butter icing for all basic sponge cakes, flavoured with the essence of your choice. Add a little milk for a softer icing for piping, or use cocoa instead of the cornflour to make chocolate butter icing.
- Total time
- 10 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 8
Ingredients
Method
0/4 doneStep 1: Cream the 2 ⅛ oz butter lightly.
Step 2: Add the 4 oz icing sugar, 2 tbsp cornflour and ½ tsp vanilla or other essence and beat until light and fluffy.
Step 3: For piping, beat in a little 1 tbsp milk to soften the icing.
Step 4: Spread over or between basic sponge cakes.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 125 kcal
- Protein
- 0 g
- Carbs
- 18 g
- Fat
- 6 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
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Good to know
- How long does basic butter icing take?
- About 10 minutes in total.
- How many people does it serve?
- 8 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of butter?
- The same weight of ghee or coconut oil (for frying and most baking).
- What can I use instead of icing sugar?
- Caster sugar, same amount.
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