Icings

Ingredients

• Chocolate Icing
• Butter: ½ cup (120 g)
• Icing sugar, sifted : 1 ¼ cup (150 g)
• Cocoa powder : ½ cup (50 g )
• Vanilla Essence : 1 tsp (5 g)
• Milk : ½ cup ( 120 g., approx.)

Preparation

• Place butter or margarine in a bowl and beat till light.

• Add the icing sugar, cocoa and vanilla and beat some more.

• Add milk a little at a time and beat till smooth and holds its shape. It should also be easy to spread without applying too much pressure.

• Vanilla Icing: substitute milk powder for cocoa powder.

• Coffee Icing: As for Vanilla Icing, substituting 2 tbsp. of very strong black coffee for vanilla essence.

• Strawberry Icing: As for Vanilla Icing, substituting strawberry essence for vanilla and adding permitted food coloring.