Buttercream Icing

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Buttercream Icing

Buttercream Icing is a traditional British recipe for a classic cake decorating icing (frosting) made with butter, icing sugar and orange zest. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic British version of: Buttercream Icing.

prep time

10 minutes

cook time

10 minutes

Total Time:

20 minutes

Serves:

Rating:

Tags : Cake Recipes British Recipes

Ingredients:

50g butter
200g icing sugar
1 tbsp milk
grated zest of 1 large orange

Method:

Cream together the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy then fold in the milk and orange zest. Typically this is used to decorate sponge cakes, fairy cakes and biscuits (cookies) but it can be used for fruit cakes if you add the finely-grated zest of 1 lime along with the orange zest.