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Basic Icing

Name: Basic Icing
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: Covers 12 cupcakes
Ingredients: 1 ½ tbsp water10g butter or margarine1 ½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar Optional Food colouring to create coloured icing

4.2

Preparation

5 mins

Bake

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

Covers 12 cupcakes

A simple recipe for versatile icing that can be used to decorate cakes, cupcakes and much more, perfect for adding a sweet finishing touch to your baking.

Icing, Fillings, Toppings, Decorating

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

1 ½ tbsp water
10g butter or margarine
1 ½ cups Chelsea Icing Sugar
Optional Food colouring to create coloured icing

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Icing Sugar

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Reviews

14

What did you think of this recipe?

Meadow 4 days ago

Soft , fluffy , sweet , delicious

giggle bust 8 days ago

Way to watery

MISSLITTLECUPCAKEBAKER 19 days ago

This icing is great. Especially great when butter prices are so high in NZ, I used margarine instead of butter so it was easier to mix. If I could I would give this 11 stars. Thank you Chelsea sugar!!

Gina Rangiheuea about a month ago

This was a delicious icing recipe so simple my lil girl dod it

Amarni about a month ago

I absolutely love this recipie and I love to make Chelsea Winter baking because they are amazing

Harlow Harawira 2 months ago

It is amazing loved it

Nina 2 months ago

Good very good taste amazing

Bailee 2 months ago

It was alright i guess

Bakers 2 months ago

Why did u not tell us to add the butter? CHELSEA: Ah, easy to miss! The butter’s there in step 1 — it gets mixed in with the hot water right at the start. Happens to the best of us! Hope it still turned out sweet in the end

Olivia Stewart 3 months ago

Amazing, just amazing

Method

Heat water and butter in a microwave on high for 30 second bursts until butter is melted.

Pour over sifted Chelsea Icing Sugar and add a couple of drops of food colouring to achieve your chosen colour. Whisk until smooth.

If you want thin, drizzling icing, ice cupcakes immediately or for a thicker consistency let icing sit for 5 minutes to thicken up before spreading over cupcakes.