Buttercream Icing Recipe / How to Make Perfect Buttercream Frosting

Today I'm sharing with you how to make perfect buttercream Icing. Buttercream frosting is a staple for cupcakes, cakes and many other baked goods.

There are a few tips and tricks that I am going to share with you to get the most perfect buttercream Icing.

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EQUIPMENT

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RECIPE

Enough for 12 Cupcakes

250g / 1 Cup Butter (salted or unsalted)
375g 3 Cups Icing Sugar | Powdered Sugar | Confectioners Sugar
30ml / 2 Tablespoons Milk

Add room temperature butter to a bowl. Beat the butter for 5 minutes until it has become light and airy, doubled in size and lost most of it's colour. Start adding the icing sugar half a cup at a time, beating for about a minute in between each addition. Use the milk to thin out the consistency of the icing, add it a teaspoon at a time. This is also the time to add any flavourings or colourings that you would like. This icing can last in the fridge for a few weeks or the freezer for 3 months. When you are ready to use just let it get back up to room temperature.

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[KylieM]

Her: ok you need to beat this for 5 min


Me 30 sec in: ok I think this is good

[jolynefanpage]

Her: it’s impossible to mix by hand
Me with my whisk and broken hand mixer: oBsErVe

[CriticoolHit]

Rarely is such quality information conveyed so simply and quickly. I don't know your entire life story, the last 50 icings you've tried or how this one is different. You just told me how to do it. Showed me. Then it was over.

From the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

[dfiet]

I followed this recipe. Never made homemade frosting before. It came out NO FAIL AMAZING!!. So smooth and sweet. Thank you for this recipe!

[jrseahorse]

And if anyone is wondering Icing sugar is the same thing as powdered sugar.

[evaseibert]

Wow! I've decorated cakes for over thirty years, and this recipe gets the most compliments I've ever had. YUM! Thank you so much for sharing.

[nadinebriggs]

Hi, I just made the Buttercream frosting, followed the recipe to the T, it turned out beautifully, I'm proud of myself, this is my new go to frosting for special occasions, Thanks for sharing your video.

[aria]

I’m a teen entrepreneur making custom cakes. I’ve had lots and lots of problems, from using granulated sugar to adding too much milk and this is going to be SO helpful. Thank you so much ❤️

[ellenhodder]

Me randomly making buttercream


My mom 4 months after: where’s all the damn butter

[ninalib]

Something else: thanks for telling your recipes aloud as well as adding subtitles. This makes this video accessible both to visually disabled and hearing-impaired persons. Some cooks cook silently and just add subtitles thus leaving visually disabled users of youtube out. Maybe some people think that visually disabled persons don't cook but they do, of course, and enjoy it as much as anyone else. Let us make all information available and accessible for them too.

[chillingwithtia]

I used this recipe 3 times. It has never failed me. I'm so grateful, tysm!! I've been hit or miss with my buttercream. But this one is always a hit! Tysm again 😊

[ronnetteharvey]

Every cookbook I've had for over 50 years has said to mix the psugar and butter at once. Yes it was yummy. But this is absolutely beautiful ❤️

[rachelm]

Hot tip: place your empty piping bag into a tall glass to make filling it easier!

[YUDIIBEAUTII]

Who’s here because of quarantine and wants to bake more 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I am 🙋🏽‍♀️

[lifewithcats]

Thank you for the recipe! I made a cake for my mother's birthday with your buttercream and everyone liked it!

[챠키-gk]

I just tried this frosting and it's GORGEOUS!! The texture is so light and fluffy. The importance of beating it for a long time!!

[minahil]

Your a life saver, im actually a cake artist and I was trying out a different buttercream recipe for a cake and OMG, this tastes awesome, I LOVE

[momzspaghetti]

Her: it's impossible to mix by hand

Me with a fork in my hand: 👁👄👁

[netad]

I tried this frosting with salted butter and added no additional flavourings/colourings. The taste was absolutely fabulous!

[Marie-umzh]

This is honestly the best buttercream recipe i have ever seen on you tube. It just looks so light.