Cake Decorating Icing

There are many recipes for “Butter Cream Icing”. Cake decorating icing has some varieties, like eggs, butter or all shortening or a combination of shortening and butter. Each cake decorator has their favorite cake decorating icing recipe. The favorite cake decorating icing recipe is very simple to make. It’s great for covering your special cake, doing borders and making Frosted Flowers.

With hot summers and if you live were it is hot all the time you don’t want to use butter in your cake decorating icing recipe as it melts on hot days and leaves you with a not so pretty cake. The recipe for cake decorating icing used here has only shortening in it. Crisco shortening is the brand used with this receipe when making cake decorating icing.

Here is the recipe for cake decorating icing: 2lb. bag of icing sugar, 1 cup of Crisco and 2/3 cup of milk that it nothing more very simple. In a large bowl put the icing sugar and shortening blending it together with a fork. Then add the milk mixing with the fork to get the icing powder moist. Taking a electric mixermix it at high speed until smooth. This recipe will keep for several weeks in an air tight container. You can also freeze this cake decorating icing if Iyour not going to use it again for several weeks
This cake decorating icing can be used for icing cakes, cookies, cupcakes, borders and writing on cakes. You can also make Frosted Flowers they just take a little longer to dry before handling them. Cake decorating icing can be made into many different colors like pink, blue, yellow, red, black this is just a few of many colors. Begin with white icing and use concentrated colors which won’t affect the consistency of your cake decorating icing.

Start with a small amount of cake decorating icing. Dip a toothpick into the color, swirl it into the icing. Add color a little at a time until you have the shade you like. Start with a new toothpick each time you add color; to avoid getting icing in the jar of color. Blend the icing well with a small cake spatula or knife.

Cake decorating icing goes a little darker after mixing about one or two hours. Royal icing requires more color to achieve the same intensity. Make sure to mix enough color for what you would like to use on your cake. Duplicating a shade of color is difficult. This is an important reminder if you want to keep color consistent on the cake. Cake decorating icing is great to work with when you are just starting out to learn all about cake decorating.