Rich frosting, great on Banana Spice Cookies.
Great frosting. i used it on top of chocolate cupcakes and it was fantastic. I tinted all different colours and it mixed really well. It was a bit too stiff to work with so i put it in the microwave for 15 seconds and it was slightly more creamy. It holds its shape really well. So tasty!
Read MoreI halved the sugar in this recipe and all my family still said it was way too sweet. It was kind of grainy although I beat it very well.
Read More Great frosting. i used it on top of chocolate cupcakes and it was fantastic. I tinted all different colours and it mixed really well. It was a bit too stiff to work with so i put it in the microwave for 15 seconds and it was slightly more creamy. It holds its shape really well. So tasty!
I just tried this after finding out that I was out of shortening to make the buttercream frosting I usually use for cupcakes/sugar cookies. I am impressed! I used powdered (reconstituted) milk and it still turned out great. It set up quickly and spread wonderfully. I will use this instead of the other since I never really liked tasting the shortening anyway!
The frosting was tasty, though it was a bit too sweet so I added more butter and less sugar. It was also good with cocoa and melted chocolate.
Nice, basic and dependable butter cream frosting, but just a tad on the sweet side if you use all the powdered sugar called for. I stopped at 3-1/2 cups and found it just right, although as little as 2 cups would have worked too. I didn't measure the milk, as how much you use depends on how you plan to use the frosting, and in my case I piped it, so I'm sure I used less than the recipe directed.
Good basic butter frosting recipe. I suggest adding the milk and sugar slowly checking for taste and consistency until it reaches your liking. Easy to add ingredients to this icing to make unique flavors. For example, mix in: Cocoa powder = chocolate icing Instant coffee + cocoa powder = mocha icing Lemon juice = lemon icing Lime juice = lime icing (great on coconut cake) Orange zest = orange icing Dollop of Peanut Butter = pb icing Maple Syrup = Maple icing
My family loves this recipe! It is really simple, fast, and can be used on many different desserts. My family's favorite is to use it on cut-out cookies!!
This was so easy!! My cousin and I made this at 2 am to frost a lemon cake. We added lemon extract and yellow food coloring to the frosting, and it was really good! Just make sure you put in enough of the powdered sugar, or it will get a bit runny and drip out the sides of the cake... Still tastes good, but looks kinda weird! Also, I'd recommend sifting the sugar before putting it in the frosting. We didn't do this because we didn't have a sieve handy, but I think it would have eliminated the somewhat gritty texture (that's why I gave it 4 stars).
I halved the sugar in this recipe and all my family still said it was way too sweet. It was kind of grainy although I beat it very well.
I halved the sugar in this recipe and all my family still said it was way too sweet. It was kind of grainy although I beat it very well.
This recipe is extremely easy to make. I used 4 cups of confectioners' sugar instead of 4 1/2 cups. I also used fat free milk. The frosting is very sweet but delicious. I recommend not making the frosting ahead of time. The frosting gets this weird textured if sitting to long.
this is the receipe my mom used for all our cookies, especially at Christmas. You can add food coloring or cocoa. It's the the best!!
My kids really enjoyed making and eating this frosting! We ended up using 1/2 cup butter, an extra cap full of milk and an extra cap full of vanillla extract to make it perfect.
Loved this frosting. Came out a great piping consistency. Tried to duplicate the candy corn colors for fall, but messed up the color order. They still came out cute, and my daughter's volleyball team loved them!
This was my first try making icing. I added extra icing sugar because it seemed a bit runny to me. I used a few drops of food colouring and then put it into plastic sandwich bags with the tip cut off to pipe it onto cupcakes and it was great! The icing hardened to keep its shape. I'm really happy to have a recipe without shortening that I will definitely use again.
Easy to make and taste so good. I used it to frost my daughter's castle cake. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Easy and good.
It is a very easy recipe and the kids loved putting the frosting on the cookies.
This was such a good recipe. I don't think I'll bother looking for another butter frosting now that I've discovered this one. The texture was perfect and it tasted great.
GREAT! This is so good: I had my family eating just frosting. Because I was making a coconut cream cake, I added...coconut. Spread on white cake. This is amazing! :)
Very good! It didn't get all hardened up and crusty and did not require refrigeration like most homemade frostings said.
Too sugary and very difficult to get to the perfect consistency. Did not taste buttery at all. Just Okay and I won't make again.
I followed the recipe exactly and it came out just right. I iced my cupcakes and they looked absolutely beautiful. For me, personally it came out too sweet... Which I should have known before hand by just reading the ingredients. Next time I think I'll try a different frosting/icing recipe and save this one for homemade cinnamon rolls.
I was looking for a frosting to frost "Amish Cookies" from this site and this one seemed to fit the bill. Nothing beats butter for frosting and the sugar is easily adjusted for the amount of sweetness you desire. I only used 3 1/2 cups sugar and, despite that, actually had to add a little more milk to get the right consistency to pipe onto my cookies. This is a recipe I will definitely use again!
These are the exact ingredients my grandma taught me how to use! I didn't even know a recipe was needed. We always just eyeballed the ingredients. If it was too wet we added more powdered sugar, too sugary and we added a little more butter, and if too thick we added more milk about a teaspoon at a time. I don't think that it is the best frosting, as it is so super sweet, but it is a very simple frosting that even a kid can make. Cocoa can also be added to make a chocolate version. Although, this frosting will not harden up like a royal or cookie icing, unless the cookies are froze! So, don't plan on using if you're trying to make fancy cookies to take some where and need a hard type icing.
My family has been using this all my life. We never had a written recipe, just "a glob of butter, a splash of milk" etc. If it turns out too runny you can add more sugar, too thick you can add more milk. Instead of using vanilla you can use orange, banana, almond extract etc. Some people say it comes out grainy and to sift - I've never sifted; use a hand mixer. It fluffs it up a bit, too.
Yummy yummy yummy....not too sweet for me but then again I am a sweet tooth girl. This is my new standard frosting.
I used sour cream instead of milk, with great success. Tasted fantastic! Also used a bit more butter than was asked for, 1/2c. Made this way, it was thick and spreadable, but also pipe-able! Everyone really enjoyed it. Be sure to use it on a cookie or cupcake that is not too sweet. This frosting is plenty sweet. =)
A good, simple butter frosting. If you prefer a bit more of a buttery flavor up the butter a bit or add butter flavoring.
I think I did it wrong, it came out way too sweet and not very buttery tasting. Easy to make tho.
This is the best, richest frosting. My dad makes this for every cake he bakes and everyone loves it. VERY YUM.
Good Icing. I added double the butter because it was still really thick and tasted really sugary and less buttery. I aslo had to add a little more milk, but only like a teaspoon to get it to a spreadable consistancy.
Quick and easy recipe for frosting. Cut the recipe in half as I didn't need too much (only needed some to write on Humungous Cookies from this site). Even cutting the recipe in half, I used less than half the amount of icing sugar, probably only 1 1/2 cups instead of 2 1/4 based on half recipe. Found it sweet enough this way. Good stuff!
Loved it! It is sweet but frosting is supposed to be sweet! Used it to frost a white cake then covered it with coconut. Delicious!
Great frosting!! i added a splash of almond extract but it is not necessay. This recipe is pretty darn perfect for any cake. :)
We love this frosting! It is so easy to make and frosts so nicely. Beats the canned frostings to heck. I had only a few cupcakes to frost (4-6) and I reduced the servings to 12 and it was the perfect amount.
just perfect for my cupcakes. made a surprising amount. I could half the recipe for 2 dozen cupcakes.
This is maybe the sweetest frosting I've ever had! It made the roof of my mouth tingle. I like that, but be advised if you don't! It looses points because it didn't set up well for me and slid off the cake. Probably need to keep it refrigerated.
This recipe is very SWEET! literally. Good for cookie cut-outs. I used berries to add some natural color instead of the food dye.
Great recipe! Finally a frosting recipe I can use over and over with my sugar cookies! I did use almond extract since I didn't have vanilla at the time. It turned out great and my hubby isn't the almond flavor type, he said it tasted like a "hint" of almond, and wasn't overpowering, he loved it.
This is hands-down the BEST frosting I've ever used! The ONLY change we made is the addition of about a tablespoon of milk, but other than that, it's perfect as-is. Just sweet enough, and not buttery or greasy, like some of the shortening-based frostings. I'll use this recipe forever!
Love Love Love this frosting. It is so yummy, the kids loved it. Absolutely perfect and you can just add more milk to make it thinner. Super easy to make. I always double the recipe, because I usually use alot of it.
I just finished icing birthday cupcakes for my little girl's first birthday party using this recipe...simply wonderful! So easy and absolutely delicious. I made it light pink and it looks beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing this. It will be my "go to" icing!!!
This was perfect. I used about 4 cups of sugar and it was the perfect consistency for piping. I also added 1t cinnamon for chocolate mocha cupcakes with cinnamon buttercream frosting. UPDATE: when I served my cupcakes directly out of the refrigerator, the icing was very dense. In my experience, it's best to pull it out about an hour before serving and allow it to soften a bit.
Ultra sweet...but what do you expect with all that sugar. Anyway for those who stated that it was gritty, you MUST sift the powdered/confectioners sugar while mixing the ingredients. It makes all the difference.
My mom has been using this recipe for as long as I can remember. BEST FROSTING EVER! Love it!
I'm not sure why this is called a butter recipe since there is absolutely no butter 'taste'. It basically tastes like powdered sugar -- very, very 'sickly' sweet. This might be good for sugar cookies, but not much else.
Great frosting and it was even tastier with coconut extract instead of vanilla!
I never beat in the remaining sugar. It was sweet enough as it was, and the consistency was fine. There was certainly enough frosting to frost a cake. Easy and everyone liked it.
This recipe is fantastic! So delicious and better tasting than frosting made with shortening. It thickened up and I decorated my cake with no problems (including piping with various tips). I used slightly less sugar and adjusted the milk accordingly, it worked great. I also used mostly vanilla and added some almond extract, I recommend it as it added such a nice flavor.
This was functional but nothing special. It tasted like powdered sugar and butter--but not a really great frosting.
Absolutely love the frosting but I did cut the sugar down to 3 cups and I increased the butter to 1/2 cup.
Yum. The first time I made this I followed the recipe exactly and it was great. This time I was in a hurry so I read the ingredients, threw it all in a bowl and beat it - still turned out perfectly, even though I didn't follow the instructions. Kids are enjoying the beaters right now!
Now this is real frosting and exactly the frosting I grew up on. Thanks for posting it.
Yummy and easy. But make sure you don't melt your butter any or your frosting will come out runny. But it still tastes great!
I have used this recipe a countless number of times. It instantly makes anything (cookies, cupcakes, cake, brownies) so much better! Definitely my favorite frosting recipe! Thanks for adding it!
i used these to frost cupcakes for a bridal shower. loved the taste, but it wasn't a great choice for decorating. it wasn't stiff enough for some of the piping i was doing but it worked well enough. thanks!
Yum! I whipped this frosting up in no time at all. I decided to replace the vanilla with almond extract and smear it on top of pink cupcakes for Valentine's Day.
Everyone loved it!!
I didn't like it. Then again, I've yet to find any home made frosting that I like. With how much powdered sugar you have to put in it, costwise it's just as cheap to buy a can of good frosting at the store!
this is a great basic recipe...I added a little bit more butter than the one-third cup because it was really sweet and it was perfect. Easy to color or decorate.
I made this to frost cupcakes with a decorator tip. It was easy and the flavor was excellent. I liked it used butter and not crisco.
Love love love this frosting. Added a scoop of whipped cream cheese and cut back on the sugar but added a dash of butter extract. It was awesome on Allie's spice cake.
I was looking for a frosting recipe that didn't call for shortening. Turned out great, spreads well over cupcakes and tastes great. Thanks for the staple recipe! :)
Great recipe! It was very sweet, but I made it for a spice cake that wasn't very sweet so it worked perfectly. I suggest if you do not want it as sweet halving the milk and the sugar or it won't be the right consistency.
not the worst frosting in the world but it was sicky sweet. It might be better for icing cookies but i used it for a cake and not so good. Luckily it was just the crumb coat so I can use a different recipie for the final layer.
Wonderful frosting! I added a pinch of nutmeg (frosting a gingerbread cake) and it was delicious and easy!
I used this for an orange cake, and it was wonderful! I did have to add a little more milk because it's very thick, and I also added about an extra 1/4 tsp vanilla. Very easy to make.
Is easy, fast and you can't get better natural flavors compared to the can...Great recipe with just few ingredients. I would use it again!
Delicious! I made it last week to ice a batch of cupcakes and was asked for the recipe.
I usually mess up icing recipes but this one worked for me entirely. Thank you
This was so good and very easy,only one thing it was to sweet so instead of 4 1/2 cup sugar i used only 3 cup sugar and it worked very good.
I only used 3 cups of powdered sugar and wasn't able to sift it and this is absolutely the best frosting ever. It puts my favorite bakery's to shame...I will def be making this my go to frosting!! Even with the less sugar this is still firm enough that would be great for decorating cookies as well :)
So simple and so tasty for those of us with that over-bearing sweet tooth. Enjoyed on a simple white cake.
Dont microwave your butter to soften it! I learned my sellons when my frosting kepts seperating. I tried it again and let it soften on its own and it was perfect!
I changed this recipe so much that I am not sure it is even the same recipe, but I loved the way I made it. So here it is: 4 cups powdered sugar. 1/3 cup milk. 1 stick melted butter. 1/2 large lemon juiced. Mix together starting with butter then alternating liquids. It was thin, but zingy and yum, yum, yummy.
Good taste wise. A hair thick at 1/4 cup milk. Like other reviewers I ended up using 1/3 cup and it was perfect on my red velvet cake (Hershey's from this website).
Overall this is a good recipe. However, it is really sweet and I'm even a sweet tooth. I'd use a lot less sugar and add more butter. It was easy and fast to make though. And looked great on my chocolate cupcakes.
WAY, WAY, WAY too sweet for me - and I am a butter cream junkie! Sorry, but I continue my search for 'the butter cream' frosting of my dreams.
horrible icing and too sweet. also very runny almost like doghnut glaze. DO NOT waste your time
Ok flavor, but it looked like when a cream sauce gets too hot and separates. I did use Almond milk rather then regular milk, so I don't know if that was the difference. I also only used 2 cups of sugar. I probably won't use this recipe again.
Wonderful recipe. Very rich, very sweet. Spreads beautifully, I used it on cupcakes. My roommate tasted it and said that it almost tasted like vanilla ice cream!
Great consistency - perfect for flavoring to any flavor (I made lemon - but I can imagine chocolate coming out great).
I used 3.5 cups of confectioner's sugar. It is plenty sweet. Since it is not 4.5 cups, my frosting was a bit on the thin side. So I had to put it in the fridge for a bit to frost my cupcake better. It tasted okay.
I used 4 cups of sugar and put the frosting on the banana spice cookies...soooo good :)
