Recipe: Tasty Buttercream Icing

Buttercream Icing.

You can cook Buttercream Icing using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Buttercream Icing

1. Prepare of Icing.
2. You need 1 cup of unsalted butter.
3. It's 1/2 cup of vegetable shortening.
4. It's 5 cup of confectioner sugar.
5. You need 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. You need 3 tbsp of whipping cream.

Buttercream Icing instructions

1. Sift confectioner sugar so as to get rid of any lumps..
2. Soften butter at room temperature and beat for 5 minutes until fluffy and creamy..
3. Add the vegetable shortening and beat together with butter for 3 minutes until It's incorporated..
4. Start adding the sugar little by little until It's all well incorporated and beat for 5 minutes after all the sugar has been added..
5. Add vanilla extract and whipping cream, beat for another 5 minutes until fluffy and creamy..
6. Note: You can add other flavors and color the icing any way you like. If too soft you can add more sugar little by little until the desired consistency is reached..