Baking for some is therapeutic and relaxing. It gives them the feeling of calm and at the same time, the feeling of accomplishing something that not everyone is up to. But baking is not easy. From the materials and tools, you really need to have a heart and passion to be able to do baking. I think people into baking are also very talented because they know how to follow exact measurements for ingredients. Baking is not like cooking a food because one should know how to follow the exact measurements and should also know the proper tools to measure every ingredient.
But if you want to bake or at least give a self-made cake to someone without the hassle of doing the real baking, here is a way to do it, simple and no baking skills needed.
How to have an instant cupcake you can call your own?
Buy the most special plain cupcakes in the market. You can choose from chocolate cupcake, cheese cupcake or mocha cupcake. But here is the twist, prepare a special icing frosting for your cupcakes. How?
Butter Icing Frosting
Ingredients:
- 250g butter (cubed at room temperature)
- 450g or 3 cups of icing or refined sugar
- 60ml or ¼ cup of milk
Procedures:
- Place the butter in a mixing bowl. After this, use an electric beater to make the butter fluffy and soft.
- Add the icing or refined sugar until it becomes fluffy.
- Add the milk and beat until smooth and evenly combined.
If you want other flavors for your icing, add the following ingredients to the butter icing frosting.
- Vanilla Icing: put a teaspoon of vanilla extract to the butter icing.
- Chocolate Icing: mix a quarter cup of cocoa powder to the butter icing.
- Orange Icing: peel the zest of an orange and mix it with the icing. For more orange flavor, extract the orange juice and mix well.
- Coffee Icing: add 2 teaspoon of an instant coffee to the mixture.
- For Colored Icing: add a pinch of coloring powder of your color choice
