How to Make Delicious Cake Decorating Icing

Decorating any kind of cake is a fun activitiy for bakers of all ages. Here's a delicious recipe for a soft fluffy icing to use for your next cake decorating adventure.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Ingredients as listed
• Electric mixer
• Paste food coloring

1. Ingredients:
   8 cups powdered sugar
   2 cups solid shortening - spray measuring cup with nonstick cooking spray for easy removal
   3/4 cup half and half
   2 teaspoons vanilla extract
   1 teaspoon of almond extract (or flavored extract of your choice)

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, shortening and half-and-half. Beat at low speed until blended.

3. Pour in vanilla and almond extracts and continue to beat at low speed until all ingredients are blended.

4. Now turn your mixer on HIGH and beat icing for 5 minutes. This step is critical in creating the fluffy texture of this icing. Set your kitchen timer for 5 minutes and let the mixer do it's job.

5. Tint the frosting desired colors. I have found using paste food colors make the truest color. These can be found in the cake decorating aisle of many retailers. Frost your cake and enjoy!

Tips & Warnings

• This recipe makes approximately 8 cups of icing.

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on 9/5/2009 Sounds like the kind of icing used to decorate cakes that are bought at the store. Now we can do it at home too.