Buttercream Recipe | How to Make Basic Buttercream (2024)

About the bake

Ever wondered how to make buttercream icing from scratch? Look no further...Not only can we show you how to make buttercream, this smooth buttercream recipe is going to up raise your icing game to a whole new level.

With the addition of Billington's Golden Icing Sugar you will achieve a fluffy buttercream frosting tinted with a hint of beautiful caramel colour and flavour. Guaranteed to transform your cupcakes from ordinary to extraordinary.

5Prep Time

12Serves

Buttercream Recipe | How to Make Basic Buttercream (7)

Easy

Method

  • Method
  • Ingredients
  • Reviews(8)
  1. Step 1:

    Beat the butter and sugar together until smooth, beforeaddingthe vanilla extract.Adding asplash of milk,ifpreferredwill help soften and make a soft smooth consistency.

  2. Step 2:

    To create a coloured buttercream, add a few drops of food colouring at a time, mixing until your reach the desired colour.

Ingredients

MetricImperial

    • 50gUnsalted butter (softened)
    • 200gBillington's Unrefined Golden Icing Sugar
    • 1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
    • A few dropsFood colouring

Utensils

  • Bowl

Nutritional Information

per 25g

  • 129calEnergy
  • 6.8gFat
  • 4.3gof which Saturates
  • 17gCarbohydrates
  • 16gof which Sugars
  • 0gProtein
  • 0gSalt

Recipe Reviews

This was so good!!!!

Thanks for the recipe. But whenever I make buttercream it’s very soft which I cannot use it to pipe. Any reason for that? Recommended butter maybe?

Thanks it is delicious but not quite as i suspected but thank you for sharing your recipes with us

great for the kids

Great. I made this recipe and got it right first time! Every one loved them 😃❤️

Wonderful recipe

Ingredients

MetricImperial

    • 50gUnsalted butter (softened)
    • 200gBillington's Unrefined Golden Icing Sugar
    • 1 tspNielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
    • A few dropsFood colouring

Utensils

  • Bowl

Nutritional Information

per 25g

  • 129calEnergy
  • 6.8gFat
  • 4.3gof which Saturates
  • 17gCarbohydrates
  • 16gof which Sugars
  • 0gProtein
  • 0gSalt

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