butter cream (icing) recipe....and food colouring

[Pandora]

Anyone?
DH (yes, DH not DS) has requested a rocket ship birthday cake, which is all cut out and ready to go but I cant find my butter cream recipe, and i know its very easy to make.

Any suggestions?

Also he wants the icing to be orange and green, so since there will be the yellow tinge already, you I use blue to get green and red to get orange? Or still need to include the yellow as well?

thanks!!

[Ellibam]

vienna cream
125g butter
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
2 tablepoons milk

whip butter till almost white, add in half icing gradually add milk then the remainder of the icing(beating the whole time)

from the original ww birthday cookbook

you will need to make orange and green the colour of the icing doesnt help(iykwim)

post some piccies when your done

[Pandora]

thanks

[Visitor7]

That's the way I do it, and it comes out perfect.

[Bloom]

I reckon you will need to add yellow to get green, the icing will only have a very pale yellow tint. And my DH requests cakes too: last year it was in the shape of the arc de triomphe as we'd just got back from Paris and the year before it was a rocket too!

Don't forget to put sparklers on around the base so when they are lit it looks like the rocket is taking off!

[Danni]

how cool!!!! I can't wait to see how you've done it!

[Trish]

I used butter cream when I made Abbey's cake, because I wanted pale pink and not a salmon colour, as it would have turned out, I substituted half of the butter from copha. I found a recipe that suggested using all copha, but I just couldn't do that. LOL. So half and half it was, the colour turned out great (much paler than butter cream) and the taste was yummy too!