making icing

[Twiglett]

saw a recipe ..said to add corn syrup .. what is corn syrup and is it likely I'll have it in my very english cupboard

want the wet icing you spread over (normally just do icing sugar and water)

the last spreadable icing i made was from a kids book on cupcakes..iirc it had butter, double cream, loads of melted chocolate and icing sugar in it. about a gazillion calories..but no corn syrup (which sounds yuk)

Hi - corn syrup is american for Golden Syrup. If you want a spreadable butter icing I would do double amount icing sugar to butter or marg, and possibly a splash (tbspn) or so of milk. If you have any cream knocking about a dollop of cream does make it extra luxurious. Can flavour the icing with cocoa, coffee (use Camp coffee or dilute in a little boiling water) or perhaps orange juice. Drop of vanilla essence is nice too. HTH

\link{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_syrup\Sounds like liquid glucose}. You could probably dissolve some sugar in warm water instead.

i like a bit of lemon juice in my icing sometimes so it's not too sickly. fabulous on carrot cake

thanks guys

kids' birthday cake so sickly is requisite

has cocoa butter icing in the middle .. just wanted white icing base over the top .. will add lemon juice and mess around with other syrupy things ..