Vanilla Frosting Recipe (2024)

FAQs

How do you make can vanilla frosting taste better? ›

Raid your pantry for flavor boosters.

Other smooth ingredients that you can add to amp up a canned frosting are peanut butter (or any nut butter of your choosing), fruit preserves or jam, nutella, marshmallow creme, cookie butter, or a citrus curd.

But, there are ways to make it more interesting; one such way is to hit it with a shot of vinegar. Don't worry, the icing won't taste sour or like vinegar at all, but the acid will help balance out the sweetness, making it taste more pleasant. Even better, it will make the icing stronger and more durable.

Try thickening it with a bit of heavy whipping cream. You can add up to ¼ cup of heavy cream, depending on how much you need to thicken it. Then whip the frosting until it fluffs up.

In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and butter with spoon or electric mixer on low speed. Stir in vanilla and 1 tablespoon of the milk. Gradually beat in just enough remaining milk to make frosting smooth and spreadable. If frosting is too thick, beat in more milk, a few drops at a time.

Do you want it sweeter or need a firmer consistency of buttercream? Add more powdered sugar. You can add as much powdered sugar as you like.

Sugar is the most important ingredient in all types of frostings, providing sweetness, flavor, bulk and structure.

Italian Meringue Buttercream

This is considered one of the very difficult methods for making buttercream because the sugar syrup must be cooked to a specific temperature and then, while piping hot, poured into the whipped egg whites.

You can add another ingredient like cream or a soft beverage or coffee, to counteract the overage of vanilla, or you can just enjoy the concoction as it results and savour the vanilla flavor.

Icing sugar, also known as powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar, is made by finely grinding granulated sugar until it is a very fine powder.

Frosting is the thickest of the bunch, thanks to (usually) employing something creamy in the makeup—such as butter, whipping cream, or cream cheese. Icing generally uses cream or egg whites as a thickener, but tends to be more liquid when applied and hardens as it dries.

What is bakery frosting made of? ›

Back to old school buttercream: Now, because the ingredients are always the same (butter, powdered sugar, milk/cream, maybe a little salt, and flavorings), “developing” my own buttercream frosting recipe has not been about what ingredients to include, per se, but more about the ratio of one ingredient to the other, and ...

At its most basic, icing, like our White Icing, can be a simple combination of confectioners' sugar and liquid (cream, milk, citrus juice, or liqueur) mixed to a smooth consistency that's thick enough to coat the surface of a cookie but thin enough to spread into a completely smooth, almost puddle-like layer.

Whip the frosting using an electric mixer (either hand mixer or stand mixer) for 2 to 3 minutes until fluffy and doubled in size.