Buttercream Icing

This Buttercream Icing is good for icing and decorate a cake , you can use it as a filling, to pipe figurines or roses, and for borders too.

You will need:

1 cups butter (2 bars)

2 cups shortening (Crisco is a very good one)

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp almond extract

1 tsp butter flavor

2 pound sugar powder ( C & H is a very good one)

1 tbs meringue powder ( to created a smoother texture)

2 tbs water (more or less depending of the humidity)

Procedure

In a Mixer, cream butter, shortening and salt together.
Add all the three flavors (butter, vanilla, almond) and mix well.
Add 1/2 of the sugar powder, 1 tbs water and the meringue powder, mix well.
Add sugar a little bit at the time until you get your desired consistency, add more water if needed.

To keep this icing moist, keep it covered and refrigerated if you are not going to used immediately.

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