Help with cupcake icing!!?

[FayDanielle]

Any of you ladies make cupcakes?
I want to make the icing like this
https://www.justaddcupcakes.co.uk/Website%20Images/Cupcake1.jpg
but have no idea where to start!

 

[polo_princess]

Its just icing sugar and butter hun, i take it youve got the stuff to actually pipe it on?

 

[FayDanielle]

yeah we'll have all the pipes and stuff, its for october, so we just want some time to perfect it! x

 

[Glitterfairy]

It's just coloured buttercream.

Icing sugar and buttercream...beat it together until it's as thick as you want it.Can add colour/flavour or a bit of milk if you like then pipe on.

xxx

 

[Boomerslady]

I was going to reply, but saw the other ladies have. Just butter and icing sugar. I'm not sure if its right, but i tend to use double the weight of icing sugar to butter. Thanks to glitterfairy I can now make lovely lemon cupcakes, lemon buttercream is soooo good. Thanks GF

 

[Blah11]

yeh i use 250g icing sugar, 80g utter (it takes ages to get it to a paste but it will!) then add 25ml milk. Then to pipe it on a 1M wilton tip gives you that classic cupcake look.

 

[RJ01]

Just going to jump on this thread hope you don't mind
Mine aways seems runny where am i going wrong?
Am I not mixing it for long enough?

 

[odd_socks]

sorry off topic but oohs those look yummy!! lol

 

[Tsia]

runny means you are adding too much liquid.. to thicken it up just add loads more icing sugar!

the wilton 1M nozzle is triffic!!

https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/customised%20buggys/cakes%20n%20stuff/Image1215.jpg https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/customised%20buggys/cakes%20n%20stuff/Image1206.jpg

https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/customised%20buggys/cakes%20n%20stuff/Image1051.jpg https://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s51/tsia977/Image0811.jpg

mmmmm making me hungry

 

[Glitterfairy]

Just going to jump on this thread hope you don't mind
Mine aways seems runny where am i going wrong?
Am I not mixing it for long enough?

Sounds like you need to add more icing sugar.Also do you add food colouring too it?

 

[odd_socks]

mmm those chocolate ones look yummy!! lol

 

[Tsia]

lol they were.. they are my firsts attempts using te hhwilton nozzle.. it was disatser after disaster before that baby came along! haha

 

[Natasha2605]

mmmm yum. This thread reminds me I haven't make cakes in ages.... mmmm xx

 

[aly888]

mmmm yum. This thread reminds me I haven't make cakes in ages.... mmmm xx

mmm, me either...and now I want to...Just so I can eat them after

To those of you who add liquid to the icing, am I doing it wrong? I'm pretty sure I just cream the butter and icing sugar together and add flavour/colour accordingly

xx

 

[RJ01]

Just going to jump on this thread hope you don't mind
Mine aways seems runny where am i going wrong?
Am I not mixing it for long enough?

Sounds like you need to add more icing sugar.Also do you add food colouring too it?

Yes I add colouring, think I will make some and put less liquid in i've got the wilton set haven't tried it yet thanks ladies. x

 

[Glitterfairy]

The food colouring pastes are better than liquid food colouring i find. x

 

[CRWx]

i've noticed (when i got a cupcake from starbucks the other day) that the buttercream stuff seemed stiffer? it was more ridgid than usual than mine i thought they added something to it x

 

[Glitterfairy]

They might just use a thicker mix or it might not have been that fresh?
When you ice a cake and don't eat them for a day or 2 the icing goes thicker and harder.

 

[CRWx]

hmmm maybe, it tasted amazing though ^_^