Buttercream Cake Frosting

Though making cakes at home is considered to be a simple task, not many people know the method of making cake frosting. While some people buy ready-made frosting available in the market, most people eat homemade cakes without icing. However, is a cake complete without the frosting, especially if you are baking a cake for a very special occasion like a birthday, anniversary or a wedding? Though most people think that making cake frosting at home is a difficult task, it is actually not so. One of the simplest cake frosting that you can make is with buttercream. Hence, here we will take a look at the recipe of buttercream frosting as well as different variations of making it.

Recipes for Buttercream Frosting
Buttercream frosting, also known as icing, is used to decorate cakes. Though most of the ingredients are the same, making certain changes in these ingredients can help you make a variety of frosting at home. Let us take a look at some of them.

Simple Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

• 3½ cups confectioners sugar
• 1/3 cup butter
• 3 to 4 tablespoons milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Take butter in a medium-sized mixing bowl and beat it with vanilla and salt. Keep stirring these ingredients till the mixture becomes light and fluffy. This should be followed by adding sugar, however, rather than adding all the sugar at once, you should mix it slowly. Add ½ cup of sugar and stir the mixture. Repeat this process till you mix all the sugar. Add milk to this and continue stirring till you reach the desired consistency.

Coffee Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup softened butter
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
• 2½ cups sugar
• 2 teaspoons cooled espresso or coffee liqueur
• 3 teaspoons cocoa
• 4 ounces whipped cream

Directions

In an electric blender, take softened butter, cocoa, and powdered sugar, and mix together till they are completely blended. Take whipping cream in a microwave friendly bowl and keep it in the microwave at a medium temperature till it becomes a little warm. However, see to it that the whipping cream does not start boiling. Add coffee granules to the warm whipped cream and mix. Pour in the cooled espresso or coffee liqueur with it and mix the whole thing into the butter mixture. Beat these ingredients together until the mixture becomes soft and smooth.

Choco-Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

• 12 tablespoons butter
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 12 ounces chocolate cocoa
• 10 tablespoons milk
• 5 1/3 cups Confectioner's sugar

Directions

In a small mixing bowl, take sugar and mix it with cocoa. Take butter in an electric mixer and blend by adding ½ cup of cocoa-sugar mixture into it. Put in the milk alternately with the remaining cocoa-sugar mixture to get the consistency that you want. In the end, add vanilla and blend again.

Delicious Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

• 16 ounces butter
• 8 ounces sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ cup water

Directions

Ina a saucepan, take water, sugar and corn syrup and cook it over high heat. While this mixture is getting cooked, break eggs in a bowl and beat them by adding salt into. Once the eggs become fluffy, set the bowl aside. When the mixture starts boiling and the sugar gets fully dissolved, transfer it into the bowl containing the beaten eggs. Let the mixture cool for sometime. Chop the butter into small cubes and fold them into the mixture when it turns lukewarm. Beat the mixture till it becomes light and fluffy in texture.

These were some frosting recipes that you can easily make at home. So, next time you plan to bake a cake, decorate it with beautiful designs made from buttercream frosting along with fruits and nuts that you like. I am sure that you and your family members will enjoy the delicious cake made with buttercream frosting.