I FORGOT TO MENTION: FRESH LEMON JUICE IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST!! This is an absolutely fantastic recipe. It has actually become my base icing for many different things... 1. Omit the lemon and replace it w/ strawberry juice - and you have strawberry icing. 2. Make sure the butter is still fairly hard and add some body temperature melted chocolate and you have chocolate icing (again, omit the lemon!) 3. Add some very ripe mashed banana (just a tablespoon!) and you have delicious banana lemon icing. 4. Instead of lemon use a couple tablespoons of Bailey's Irish cream and you have a fantastic whippy icing for adults (absolutely delicious on chocolate cake)... I do have a couple tips regarding the original recipe. If you find the consistency to be too hard (which will very likely happen) I would not add more lemon unless you really like a very powerful lemon flavour. Instead add a few drops of milk or cream (it will not curdle if you add it once the other ingredients have already been beaten). Another way to combat too hard icing is to make sure your butter is absolutely at room temperature. Finally, for those on a tight budget - margerine works just fine!
soooooo good & soooo easy!!
i tried the original recipe and liked it alot, then i tweaked it a bit and now i love it alot. :)
i used 2 sticks of butter, a 2lb bag of powdered sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla, 5-6 tablespoons of lemon juice & proceeded as directed. I beat the daylights out of it and it came out very light & fluffy! absolutely fab-u-loso indeed! perfect lemon buttercream icing!
I halved this to use with a lemon box mix cake. It was really sweet! I mean REALLY sweet! It didn't spread too well either as it was really thick.
Very nice frosting. Used it to ice a lemon sheet cake. If you want a really lemony taste use lemon extract in place of the vanilla or do half vanilla and half lemon.
This is a keeper. Sure you may have to add a little extra lemon juice or as I did a little milk...icing is like that..this icing is lemony and not too sweet.
I made a lemon cake from a box mix and this icing/fosting provided a nice "home-made" touch. Very easy and very tasty!
i used 2 1/2 cups of the sugar and 3 tablespoons of lemon juice to add more lemon flavour and make it thinner as people were complaining it was too hard to spread. Ended up tasting excellent, very lemony but a little too runny. A little more confectioners sugar would have done the trick so maybe use 3 cups like the recipe says but add 3 tablespoons of lemon juice.
i added more lemon juice then called for and it was divine! i used it on top of the glorious sponge cake also on this site. will use this icing again thank you!
This is really good icing. I add more lemon juice which gives it a kick.
Tasted ok...we followed recipe to the letter added a little more lemon juice. Tasted buttery, but was not the glaze consistency that it appeared to be. Needs more more vanilla and something to make it more like a glaze if that is what you are looking for...
