How To Make Lemon Icing

Now, we are going to show you how to make lemon icing. So, we'll need about 1.8 kilo of icing sugar, about 500 grams butter, 400 grams of cream cheese, some lemon oil or lemon essence and a fresh lemon that you are going to use for the zest.

Okay, and the secret to making the best lemon icing is when first you combine the butter and cream cheese, so make sure they are mixed until very light and fluffy before adding the other ingredients and also use a nice fresh lemon with a beautiful peel . So, the first step is to add the butter and the cream cheese to the mixing bowl. Make sure they're not too cold, particularly the butter, otherwise it will be very difficult to mix.

And as usual, you are going to start off with a lower speed and then gradually go on to a higher speed. And you want to stop the mixture and scrape down the sides periodically. So once the cream cheese and butter mixture is light and fluffy, you want to add in your icing sugar and be sure to start of with a low speed at first to minimize the dust from the sugar and periodically you want to scrape down the sides .

To make it very fluffy, you want to eventually mix it on the highest setting. Add in your essences, so about a half a teaspoon of lemon oil or lemon extract and then you're going to add some lemon zest. It's easiest if you just do it right into the bowl, and now, we are going to mix that up again and incorporate the flavourings.

And that is how you make lemon icing. .