How to make your own icing
2 August 2023
Icing is a delicious and easy way to decorate your cakes and cookies. Most people often have the basic ingredients at home to make their own. In this blog we will tell you how to make icing in a simple way. We also have tips for you on how to adapt it for different types of baked goods. Curious about this? Then read on quickly!
What ingredients do you need?
To make the icing, you need some basic ingredients, most of which you often already have at home. So you don't need to get difficult or expensive ingredients at home to make a tasty icing. You need the following:
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- Powdered sugar
- Butter or margarine
- Milk
- Vanilla extract
How to make frosting
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- Mix 1 cup powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons butter or margarine in a bowl
- Mix this with a mixer on low speed until well blended
- Then add 2 tablespoons of milk and ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract and mix everything together well
It is desired that the icing is smooth and thick, but still easy to spread. If the icing is too thick, you can always add some extra milk and if it is too thin, add some more powdered sugar.
Icing for different baked goods
Now that you have made the basic glaze, you can adapt it to all kinds of different baked goods. A few examples are given below.
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- Cake, if you are going to bake a cake you can add a little more vanilla extract to enhance the flavor of the icing, this will match the cake better.
- Cookies, to prevent the icing from dripping off the cookies you can thicken the icing by adding more powdered sugar.
- Airy cake, to prevent the frosting for the airy cake from becoming too overpowering you can add less milk.
- Rainbow cake, make different colors of frosting for this cake. You can do this by adding edible food coloring gels to the basic frosting recipe.
- Marble cake, for a marble cake you can easily add chocolate to the base recipe.
Cooling
When you are going to decorate your cookies or cake with icing, it is important to make sure it has cooled completely. This will prevent the icing from melting and spilling out. You can also use a piping bag and make decorations on your cake or cookies for a professional look.
This way you can make easy and versatile icing! Customize the recipe for different types of baked goods. Icing is very easy to make and the best part is that you don't need a recipe. You can customize it to your own taste!
Don't feel like making your own icing? We have the solution!
Ready-made
If you don't feel like making your own icing, you can also choose to buy ready-made icing. For example, we have choco glaze, pastry glaze and pink glaze from Dr. Oetker in our assortment.
A mix for cookies
The FunCakes Mix for Royal Icing will save you a lot of time when making icing for cookies. You only need to add water to the mix and you have a nice and firm icing. You can also easily adjust its consistency by adding more or less water. You can also easily add colouring to achieve the desired color and very easily decorate your cookies with it! After decorating, the royal icing hardens, perfect for cookies!
The mix for Dip 'n Drip
Would you like to decorate cakes, cupcakes, pies or donuts with icing? Then you can choose the FunCakes Mix for Dip 'n Drip. The Dip 'n Drip is also known as fondant icing or melt fondant. You can easily make your own fondant icing with this and color it in any color you want with colouring.
Whether you choose to make your own frosting, or make it easy on yourself and opt for a quicker solution. The possibilities are endless and all very tasty!
