Kayla’s Buttercream Icing

Painter’s Palette Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing

Here is our go-to recipe for birthday cake icing. This recipe produces creamy icing that has enough body to hold up throughout the party. 

by Kalya Savoie

Ingredients

1 stick butter
1/2 stick crisco
4 cups powdered sugar
dash vanilla
Milk – no more than 4 Tbsp

Method

Mix butter and crisco until smooth on medium speed. Stop mixing and add sugar. Start out mixing slow then to medium/high. Add vanilla while mixing. Add small amounts of milk to desired creaminess, but don’t exceed 4 Tbsp. Add coloring at the end.

One batch will ice one cake or 24 cupcakes.  Kayla breaks up the white icing into bowls and then colores them in the mixer separately. If you use the same bowl for another color, be sure wash completely first.