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How to Make Yellow Icing
When it comes to decorating cakes and cupcakes, icing is usually the decoration of choice. Depending on the occasion, a few drops of food coloring mixed into a simple butter cream frosting allows the baker to make the cake relevant to a particular theme or holiday. Yellow icing is perfect for sunshine cakes for small children, or for a spring or yellow flower-themed cake. For a lemon-flavored frosting, yellow food coloring will create a look to match its taste. Add this to my Recipe Box.
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Things You'll Need
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg white
- 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla or lemon extract
- 1 tbsp. milk
- 1 to 2 drops yellow food coloring or
- 1/8 tsp. yellow food coloring gel paste
Instructions
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Combine 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar and 1 egg white in a bowl.
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Beat the ingredients together using an electric mixer until it becomes fluffy.
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Add in 1 tsp. of vanilla or lemon extract, depending on the flavor you want the icing to be.
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Slowly mix in the milk, using more or less to get to the consistency that you want.
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Add 1 to 2 drops of yellow food coloring into the batter, or 1/8 tsp. yellow gel paste food coloring. Add more food coloring little by little to reach the shade of yellow you are satisfied with.
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Tips & Warnings
Gel paste food coloring will give you a deeper yellow than the same amount of regular yellow food coloring drops.
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