Regular White Icing (Add Butter to Make Buttercream Icing)
About This Recipe
“I love this icing with the White Cake recipe that I posted. This is not a thick icing like those you buy. This also came from my sister-in-law. We use this for lots of different baked goods that require icing.”
Ingredients
Directions
Reviews
“I liked this icing b/c it didn’t call for shortening.It was a good buttercream icing.I doubled the batch to icing 2 layer cake and it just made it!”
“I think you are so funny!Thanks for the laugh.I chose to go the route of icing everything in my home!LOL!J/K!!!Still giggling over here!”
“Great icing!The recipe didn’t specify when to add the butter, so I creamed it and then added the powdered sugar.I measured the milk into a liquid measuring cup and then just poured a bit in at a time rather than struggling with measuring in teaspoon increments.Can you believe it took nearly 28 years of married life cooking to figure that one out?It worked like a charm.I just poured the unused milk back into the carton.Also, I added the vanilla at the end.Anyway, Kelly, thanks for a very good recipe!I look forward to trying your white cake soon!”
“I have been trying to find a white or buttercream icing that is not super sweet.This is what I have been looking for!AMAZING!”
“I was looking for a recipe that makes a smaller amount of icing because I was making a Recipe #40237, which is baked in an 8×8 pan.This icing has a great consistency and wonderful flavor.Be sure to mix the powdered sugar and butter together with an electric mixer before adding the milk and vanilla.You will have a smooth and creamy consistency that way.Thanks, Kelly, for sharing your recipe.”
“I absolutely LOVE this icing WITH the butter AND the directions……. LOL
It is so simple and so good……..plus the part about adding milk in TINY proportions is dead on advice.
I LOVE vanilla so I used 2 teaspoons and next time may use even a bit more.
Wonderful!
The ingredients called for will ice an angel food cake very nicely.”
“this is my go-to white icing recipe! i have used it several times. I love the sassy directions 🙂 lol”
“Made this recipe for chocolate cupcakes and sprinkled them with coconut, so good! I halved the recipe, however, and still had some leftover (didn’t want to make them too sweet).”
“omg it is soo good it was our first time and it was dilish!!!!!!! :)its like of the scale haha and the cupcakes were soo yummy!”
“Very easy and smooth icing, I added green food coloring for St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes, nice sweet taste.”
“perfect.tasty, sweet, excellent texture and good tips. thanks!”
“excellent!”
“Great icing for cut-out sugar cookies!We made pumpkin shaped cookies tonight topped with chocolate chips and candy corns.My usual icing recipe has shortening in it and I couldn’t find any in the house!So your recipe came in very handy.I made it orange.It was perfect for the cookies.We all had a blast!”
“Very nice. I did the butter version and mixed until it was balled then added milk, an extra teaspoon of vanilla and 1 tsp of corn syrup. When it dried it had a soft crust to it that went perfectly with the cake.I used on Quick Yellow Cake. Recipe #38966”
“I have used this a few times and have forgot to rate it.. but this really easy.I have added all different flavors and have heated this up so when it cooled it had a “hard candy” type crunch to it.. thanks for the great recipe!”
“Excellent!Made the Buttercream version and added just a touch of almond flavoring.”
“Worked very well! I made both the butter cream and the regular white varieties, and they both turned out as hoped! Needed only a few teaspoons of the milk for the buttercream, adding it a little at a time was a great tip!”
“Great recipe and tasted delicious! Thankssss”
“This was excellent!I made cupcakes using 1 box of cake mix and 1 can of pumpkin, and I wanted to jazz them up a little.To make it a little more chocolate-y I substituted out the last 1/2 c of powdered sugar for hot cocoa mix (it was all I had).Turned out fabulous!”