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Buttercream
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Buttercream

7 ingredients 10 min Makes enough to ice 12 cupcakes/fill and cover a 20cm cake openrecipes
Buttercream

Foolproof cake frosting requires just butter and icing sugar - try out different flavourings and use our guide for quantities

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

392
Calories
3g
Protein
20g
Fat
49g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chocolate 1 oz (28g) semisweet 155
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Orange 1 medium (131g) 62
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 300g icing sugar , sifted
  • 300g unsalted or salted butter , softened
  • finely grated lemon zest
  • finely grated orange zest
  • a dash of vanilla extract
  • few drops food colouring
  • cocoa powder , to taste

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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