Sorry for being MIA all this weekend you guys, I was so busy I hardly had time to breath. But I had a great weekend and am now back to school and back to the daily grind. Josh's 27th birthday is today (3 years until 30! Ca-Razy, I like to give him a hard time about it but only out of love of course) and I wanted to make him a cake. He's all about some funfetti so his cake was funfetti and I made homemade icing thanks to Kate at The Small Things Blog. I saw her post and instantly got inspired to make my own icing, especially after I saw that the recipe didn't call for that many ingredients and it was soooo simple.
Here's what you're going to need:
A stick of butter
1/4 cup of Crisco
1/8 teaspoon of salt
2 cups of powdered sugar (if you want the frosting sweeter, add more powdered sugar)
1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 tablespoons of milk (if you want the frosting fluffier, add more milk)
Now, in Kate's recipe she puts thing in her bowl step by step. Well, I happened to get a little TOO excited and didn't keep on reading after the ingredients section and I ended up dumping all the ingredients and then mixing, but it turned out perfect so, my advice...dump them all in at once HA! I made 2 batches and the 2nd batch I made I followed her mixing directions and both batches came out the same way. So, just put all those ingredients in a bowl and get out your blender and mix away. I wanted my icing to have color to it so I added a drop and 1/2 of green food coloring and close to 5 drops of blue food coloring and got a beautiful blue-green color. As you can see above it says to add more milk if you want the frosting a little thinner and fluffier, after the 2 intial tablespoons, I ended up adding only a little more milk, I didn't measure it out, just poured straight from the cartoon and I also ended up dumping some more powdered sugar in, I didn't measure that either, I just added and tasted and did that until it was perfect.
I am incredibly amazed at how GOOD this icing (and cake was too). Seriously! Even Josh said it was delicious, so trust me, this recipe is awesome! The next time you bake a cake, try to make your own frosting and see how it turns out!
Happy Baking!
I loved the way it turned out (I brought half the cake back to school with me to eat, haha!)
super cute cake! :o)
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