How do you make icing for "Cupcakes"? <shudder>

[KatyMac]

I like fairy cakes, smudge of white icing then chocolate sprinkle or hundreds & thousands

DD wants to make cup cake, she has a set of those squeezy bottles (that look like accordions) what sort of icing do we use?

TIA

Buttercream? 100g very soft butter, 300g icing sugar, a little hot water. Beat v well. Lurid colourings optional.

Thanks; I think in our case 'lurid colourings' will be required!

This is not going well

It didn't work when I did it with buttercream, it was too runny but that might be because I'm shite at baking.

I'm organising this by phone......DD is normally quite good but is having a crisis of confidence

I usually use double icing sugar to butter/marg. beat marg well first, add in icing sugar, tbspn milk and colouring, beat, beat and beat some more. I've not used teh accordion bottles though, I always use a bag.

yes, buttercream is what you need.
But consistency and temp affect how they come out of icing nozzles (tedious)

Cakes out of the oven

Icing sugar & butter mixed - a bit of milk added

It's all about to be split to be coloured

Cakes & icing have been delivered for me to sort out

Don't forget to let the cakes cool before you ice them or the icing will melt!

Ive just spent an hour or so making White chocolate cupcakes and basic fairy cupcakes......I've eaten so much cake mix I feel sick now

They are complete

Dayglo pink & pastel pink & green stripes

& they are giving these away to people

sounds fab, i want more food colouring now!

i did my first proper buttercream piped fairy cakes yesterday. forgot to add water and added cocoa powder. my 3&2yr old were most impressed.

Do you know they all went; & it wasn't all children.......in fact mostly OAPs