Home Made Frosting!

Home made frosting is sooooo good, when I was a kid, my Aunt Donna Jean made all my birthday cakes and did all the baking for family events. Her pastries were always gone before anything else. My Aunt Donna Jean made the best butter cream frosting... it's actually really easy, if you are good at baking. I started helping her bake everything when I was like 6, does that say how easy this is going to be?

The first things you are going to need is powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, milk, and food coloring if you want. You will also be needing a mixing bowl, and a mixer. Well you don't need a mixer. I just say to have one because it makes it all easier.

1. You will need to make the butter soft at room temp., just leave it



out for about 3 hours. It will be okay after that to use most likely. You will also want to prepare the powdered sugar by sifting it.
(Just saying, don't use melted butter... it ruins it. I did that once and it just wasn't the same.)

2. Put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. I usually do the sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, then milk. In that order, I don't think it really matters in the order of the way you put them in, but I've just always done it that way? :/ Could matter, not sure. I guess if you have enough of the ingredients, try it how ever you want!(: With the milk, you add very little amount to start off, after you mix it, you may need to add more. Frosting doesn't take much at all. I don't use measurements... sorry. :/ 

3. Once they are all in there, I usually start to mix it with a spoon, then once the ingredients are all nicely mixed, use the mixer. The speed should be like medium until it is smooooooth. Once you have the right consistency for your frosting, go ahead and put food coloring if you want. That is always the last thing to add.

4. If the frosting is to think, you can add some powdered sugar. You thought you should add milk right? WRONG! The sugar will thin it out. If the frosting is to thin, put it in the fridge. Personally I freeze my frosting, it will never go bad! It also thickens it if left in there about 30 mins.

(optional) 5. If you want to flavor it... WE CAN DO THAT! there are several flavors I like, I like vanilla and strawberry! Vanilla is obviously the original frosting that we just made. The strawberry can be done in several ways, my favorite is the way my Aunt Donna Jean did it. Just put frozen strawberries in it! Not a lot of the actual strawberries, more of the juice in the bag. Just pour it in like you would with the food coloring.