Ingredients:
- 250g butter or margarine
- 500g icing sugar, sifted
- 15ml boiling water
- 5ml vanilla essence
Method:
- Cream butter / margarine until light and fluffy
- Stir in the icing sugar then add the boiling water and beat on high speed for about 10 min or until light and creamy
- Use powder colouring if needed and beat well after adding.
Tips:
- for black icing, replace some icing sugar with cocoa powder then add black colouring
- for intense, bright colours, start with a large amount of colouring, mix and stand for 1 hour or overnight
- for pure white icing, use Wooden spoon or Marvello margarine
- add some full cream Greek yogurt to coloured or pure white icing to make it more palatable
- add some essence to complement the colours used