How do you make really thick icing,

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every time I make it it tastes ok but looks awful. help please

do you mean with icing sugar and water?
if so, mine is the same and I will hang around for the answer.

Butter cream icing is often thicker.

With icing sugar/water add the liquid very slowly and use as little liquid as possible for thicker icing.

You can get ready to use icing as well I think.

scrummy do you know how to make butter cream icing?

use double icing sugar to butter, so 3 oz butter, 6oz icing sugar.

beat butter/marg to soften, stir in icing sugar with a fork, can add few drops vanilla essence/lemon or orange juice/cocoa to flavour. may need a little milk to thin, just a tsp or so. HTH

if you want to make this look nice, you can pipe it onto cakes - star nozzle all over can look nice. Or, just smooth all over cake with palette knife, can use fork to make lnes in it - I often do concentric circles all over the top of a sponge

Thanks all, I shall have another baking session at weekend