Buttercream grass

Vanilla buttercream frosting (to decorate 24 cupcake size cakes)

Ingredients

• 250g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract
• 600g sieved icing sugar (confectioner's sugar)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons milk
• Green food coloring

What you will need

• Grass icing tube no.233
• Icing bag or bottle

Instructions

1. Whisk butter until smooth and creamy
2. Gradually whisk in icing sugar, 100g at a time, so the mixture is smooth
3. Whisk in the vanilla extract and 1 tbsp milk at high speed until fluffy and stands in peaks
4. Spoon into a piping bag or bottle fitted with a nozzle attached
5. On top of the cakes, starting at outside edge and working in circles, pipe buttercream by squeezing a small amount on to cake at a 90 degree angle
6. Pulling up and away when icing strand is long enough (about 2 cm) stop squeezing and pull tip away at various angles
7. Repeat until cake is covered
8. Push fondant flowers or bunny/butterflies lightly into iced grass

Have a sweet day!