Best Buttercream Icing Recipe

By stretchina

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 4 cups sifted confectioners sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 tblsps. lowfat milk or possibly cream

Preparation

Step 1

Cream butter and shortening. Add in sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, beating after each addition. Add in vanilla and lowfat milk, beat well. For cake icing, add in 2 tblsps. more lowfat milk. (The recipe can be colored but if you use liquid coloring be careful of the amount of lowfat milk used.) For icing cakes, flowers and border. Sufficient for a small cake.