Dan Lepard makes a stunning, yet easy chocolate icing made with melted butter and cream to give a shiny, pourable finish. Sift the cocoa and icing sugar together into a bowl. Melt the butter for a ...

Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing.

1 1/2 cups icing sugar 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp vanilla Milk as required (approx. 1/2 cup) Mix the icing sugar, butter and vanilla in a bowl and beat together to cream it, adding milk ...

Tricia is a recipe developer and tester for Dotdash Meredith with a focus on baking and pastry as well as a passion for all things food-related. She has developed over 1,200 recipes, which have ...

These classic chocolate cupcakes are the perfect dessert for any occasion — and they're ready in less than an hour. Grace Parisi a former senior test kitchen editor for Food & Wine, where she ...

Put the butter, milk and any flavouring in a mixing bowl. Sift in the icing sugar a little at a time and beat well between each addition until it has all been incorporated and the mixture is light ...

Separate the whites from the yolks. Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites and whisk until stiff. Then gradually beat in the sugar and yolks adding each alternately and beating well between each ...