Butter Cream

Category: Cakes and Bakes

Sufficient to fill or decorate 18cm (7") cake.

Ingredients

50g/2oz butter or margarine
100g/4oz icing sugar - sieved
2-3 drops food essence or flavouring

Method

Cream butter until soft. Gradually add icing sugar and cream together. Add flavouring to taste and beat well. Variations - add any of the following to the creamed mixture. Lemon - finely grated rind of 1 lemon and 15ml spoon (1 tbsp) lemon juice or lemon curd. Mocha - 5ml spoon (1 tsp) cocoa powder and 5ml spoon (1 tsp) coffee essence. Ginger - 2,5ml spoon (½ tsp) ground ginger. PER 100g 510 Kcal, fat 27.4g, saturated fat 17.4g, salt 0.5g, carbohydrate 70.1g, sugar 69.4g

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