I love to make cupcakes, cakes, or sometimes just icing.  It’s so easy to make icing and it tastes so much better than store bought icing.  I have also used marshmallow fondant to make cakes, but there’s just nothing better than plain old buttercream icing.

Recipe

1 Cup Crisco (1 stick)

1 Cup Butter (2 sticks) at room temp

1 Bag Powdered Sugar (2 lbs)

1/4 Cup Milk

1/8 tsp Salt (or just use a Pinch of Salt)

1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract (use clear vanilla if you want the icing to be white)

1 tsp Almond Extract

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Cream Butter and Crisco together with a mixer.  Add the bag of powdered sugar, salt, and milk.  You may want more or less milk depending on the consistency you desire.  (Also, I place a sheet of Saran Wrap around the top of the bowl so the powdered sugar doesn’t produce a billowing cloud in my kitchen.) Add the vanilla and almond extract and mix for about 20 seconds, scraping bowl.  I like it to get a little fluffy.  Taste it, of course.  Taste it again.  Maybe again.  You want to make sure it’s right.  It is the icing on the cake!

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Here are a few of my past cakes.  I know they’re not perfect.  I’m no professional.  I just enjoy making my kids’ birthday cakes.

This Camo cake was a joint effort by my friend Dominique Jordan and myself.  We had so much fun, and the boys did too!

The kids enjoy icing cakes as well.  They love our neighbor, Kendall, and wanted to make her a cake.  So sweet.

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Since I posted the recipe I have made a few more cakes.  I decided to add them to the list.

The Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake

Bubblegum Baseball Birthday Party

Owl Cake at our famiy party for LK. (made to look like LK’s favorite pillow)

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