Butter Icing

• Enough to sandwich 15 - 18 cm (6 - 7 inch) cake
  
• Ingredients
• 2 oz (50g) butter or margarine
• 4 oz (100g) sieved icing sugar
  
  
• flavouring and colouring as required
  choose from:
  
• few drops of vanilla essence
• few drops of almond essence
• 1 tsp orange/lemon juice
• 2 tsp coffee essence
• 1 oz (25g) melted chocolate
• 2 tsp cocoa powder with ½ tsp vanilla essence
• chopped walnuts

• Method
• Cream the butter/margarine and add the icing sugar, mix well.
• Add the flavouring/colouring.
• To sandwich and completely coat the cake with the icing, double the quantity.