My daughtie has her class picnic to a park, today. And there she comes mama I need to take cupcakes with icing and sprinkles for my friends. so baked my favourite chocolate cupcake recipe. She needed 37 of them.
The icing I used is Class butter cream icing from wilton.
Ingredients for icing :
The icing I used is Class butter cream icing from wilton.
Ingredients for icing :
- 1/2 vegetable shortening
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 2 tbsp water
- 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tbsp wilton Meringue Powder (used instead of egg white)
Method:
- Cream shortening , essence and water.
- Add dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until all ingredients have been thoroughly mixed together.
- Blend an additional minute or so , until creamy.
Before Sprinkles |
After adding Sprinkles |
Icing consistency
You will want to adjust the consistency of your butter cream icing , depending on the decorations you will be making.
Stiff consistency
Is used for decorations such as flowers with upright petals , like roses and sweet peas. If icing is not stiff enough, flower petals will droop. If icing cracks when piped out , icing is probably too stiff.
I used medium consistency add 2 tsp of water more for this consistency, which is easy to spread . And used some sprinkles on top to add some colour.
Hopefully they will enjoy the cupcakes ...!!!