Person frosting cupcakes using a piping bag - Andrii Borodai/Getty Images Homemade frosting is ... butter lover -- is that this method will make the frosting taste a bit like peanut butter.
This recipe makes enough for a 18cm/7in round ... tea towel and then leave in a cool place for at least one day. To make the icing, lightly whisk the egg whites adding the sugar at intervals.
Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing.
Nicole Hopper is a recipe tester and developer based in ... While there are no more than five ingredients needed to make royal icing, the understated decorative product can be finicky.