How To Make Vanilla Frosting

Hi, my name's Harpreet. I'm from a company called Crumbs Couture Cupcakes in London. Today, I'll be showing you various techniques and recipes to help you decorate cupcakes.

For more information, visit our website at cupcakeslondon dot com. Now, I'm going to show you how to make vanilla frosting. Take some butter.

It's best if your butter is at room temperature so that it can be incorporated well. Pop your butter into the mixing bowl and give it a quick whirl on high speed. When that's been mixed slightly, open your pouring shoots and pour in some icing sugar.

It's best to pour half of the icing sugar in, shut the flat and mix again. When that's been mixed in, open the shoot again, pour in the remaining icing sugar, shut it flat and give it another go. As the sugar incorporates more and more, it's best to increase the speed.

Pop in some milk. It's best to put in about 50 millilitres and then start your blender again. It's a good idea to open the blender and make sure that you've got all of the ingredients in the middle of the mixing bowl to make sure that it will mix as well.

So, just take a wooden spoon or spatula, give your bowl a knock, wipe off the excess and start the blender. Let it all incorporate well. Take some of your butter cream on the mixer and pop that in a bowl, and then add about a teaspoon of vanilla essence depending on how many cupcakes you're making obviously because I've just got a small amount of butter cream here, I only add a few drops.

And then just with a spoon, make sure that that gets incorporated into your butter cream. This sort of icing works fantastic on top of vanilla cakes, vanilla cupcakes, wedding cakes, anything and everything really. That's all been well mixed in and there you have how to make vanilla frosting. .