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Chocolate cake with butter icing recipe: https://happyrecipes.co.uk/chocolate-cake-with-butter-icing/ You will fall in love with this silky smooth chocolate butter icing which is indeed the most delicious, perfect frosting for your chocolate cake! Make this beautiful icing in advance and store it in a plastic box. Place the box in the fridge so that it could come in handy whenever you need to frost a cake. Super easy! It will stay fresh for several weeks! Never forget to add the required amount of lemon juice. It simply creates magic! Also, it’s very important to stick to the 2:1 proportions in measuring icing sugar and margarine to achieve the best results. Always the amount of margarine should be exactly half of the icing sugar. You will need the following ingredients; Icing sugar 300 g Margarine / Spread 125 g Cocoa powder 4-5 tbsp Lemon juice 1 tsp Salt and Vanilla essence 3 pinches and 1 tsp Milk 2 tbsp My Amazon picks: Let’s whip it; Using a sieve, swift the icin...

Vanilla buttercream Icing Whip up this creamy butter icing in less than 2 mins for frosting your cake and it will whisper a delicious story to anyone who tastes a slice from it! My personal opinion is that you should never use butter for this recipe despite it is being named ‘Butter Icing’. Butter leaves a lumpy heap in cold weather and melts soon in hot weather. Also, it is very dense and sticky too. Good quality spread or margarine is the best choice to make butter icing which will never let you down in taste as well as in texture. It will come out light, creamy and satin silk, making it a joy to frost your cake! Ingredients: Icing sugar (Swift using a sieve to get rid of hard bits) 300 g Margarine or Spread (I use Stork UK brand) Under room temperature 125 g Fresh milk 3 tbsp Lemon juice 1 tsp Vanilla essence 1 from bottle cap Let’s whip it: Swift icing sugar to get rid of hard bits Beat icing sugar and margarine together Add milk, vanilla and lemon. B...