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How To Make Low-Fat Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Lizzie from the cupcake Emporium in Lancastergate, London shows how to make low fat Vanilla Icing using margarine instead of butter. It means you can eat more of it right? Enlarge

How To Make Low-Fat Vanilla Buttercream Frosting

Lizzie from the cupcake Emporium in Lancastergate, London shows how to make low fat Vanilla Icing using margarine instead of butter. It means you can eat more of it right?

Prep:
5m
Total:
5m

Ingredients

  • 120 g baking margarine
  • 1 1/2 cups (380ml) icing sugar
  • 2 vanilla essence

Method

Make sure you use baking margarine rather than normal spreading margarine. Spreading margarine will make your frosting gloopy and too wet to spread.

Put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl of an electric mixer and blend on high speed until mixed. Smooth down the sides of the bowl with a spatula to ensure that the buttercream is evenly blended.