ingredients
- Rainbow bit cupcake mix
- Buttercream Icing Ingredients (down below)
- 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened
- 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract
- 4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
- 2 tablespoons milk
DIRECTIONS
- Make cupcakes according to instructions on back of cupcake mix box
- Let cool
- Make the buttercream icing (instructions down below)
buttercream recipe
- In large bowl, beat shortening and butter with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.
- Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. When all sugar has been mixed in, icing will appear dry.
- Gradually add milk; beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.
- For thin (spreading) consistency icing, add 2 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk.
- For pure white icing (stiff consistency), omit butter; substitute an additional 1/2 cup shortening for butter and add 1/2 teaspoon No-Colour Butter Flavor. Add up to 4 tablespoons light corn syrup, water or milk to thin for icing cakes.
- Decorate your cupcakes! (If you want, divide the batter into how many bowls you want and put food colouring in them. Here I chose to divide it into three bowls so I could use three different colours: pink, green and blue.)
- Top it off with Mini Eggs!
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Lovely looking cupcakes! 🙂
Thank you!!