Decorator's Icing

By urbcindy

Ingredients

• Chocolate
• 1 lb powdered sugar (3 1/2 C unsifted)
• 1 stick margarine (butter makes it too soft)
• 1/2 C cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 T instant coffee powder or expresso powder, if desired - to taste
• 1/3 C milk (approx - add slowly until spreading consistency)
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• White
• 2 lb powdered sugar
• 1 1/3 C Crisco solid
• 1/2 C Carnation dry milk
• 1 tsp salt dissolved in 1/4 C water (undissoved salt leaves craters in colored icing)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp almond
• Food coloring or decorator's paste coloring as desired
• addtional water - add slowly until spreading consistency reached

Preparation

Step 1

Mix all ingredients and beat 5 min. until creamy
Stores in refrigerator tightly sealed for several weeks; warm to room temperature and stir before using