Oh my goodness...
This frosting is divine!
There's no artificial food colouring in it at all.
Only pure delicious strawberries!
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
With beaters - whip together 1 cup of soft butter
3 and a half cups of icing (confectioners) sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
and 3-4 tablespoons of strawberry syrup.
I made my own strawberry syrup, which is simply 1 cup of frozen strawberries that is simmered over heat until soft,
mashed with a bit of help from my potato masher, and strained through a sieve.
Blend the leftover pulp for a fab smoothie with a scoop or two of ice cream, a tablespoon of sugar and milk.
YUM!
So all you do is beat the butter, sugar, vanilla and syrup...
It looks a bit greyish at first.
But just keep beating it.
Until it is thick, fluffy and the palest pink!
I baked a simple butter cake to test this frosting on, and it was perfect!
It would work well as a piped frosting if you wanted to do that.
Basic Butter Cake:
125 grams soft butter,
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
3/4 cup superfine caster sugar
2 eggs
BEAT until creamy...
then add...
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour
and 1/2 cup milk.
Place in a greased 19 cm cake pan.
Bake at 180 Celsius for 20 minutes
or until cake skewer comes out clean.
Cool, then frost.
(Note: this recipe makes a small cake
so double the quantities if a large cake is desired.)
Deliciously pretty!
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