Vanilla Icing Glaze

Ingredients

Confectioners' sugar -1 1/2 cups

Milk- 2 1/2 teaspoons

Salt - 1/8 teaspoon

Vanilla extract -1/4 teaspoon

Butter -1 teaspoon


Preparation

Melt the butter and add to rest of ingredients. Mix until creamy.

If you want to add color you can add.

Then pore over the cake.

Vanilla Icing

Ingredients 


Butter - 60 gm
Icing sugar  - 3 cups (sifted)
Milk - 2 tbsp
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Salt - a dash

Preparation


Whip butter in an electric mixer on mediu speed for about 8 min or until it becomes creamy

Pour in rest of the ingredients and continue blending them on low speed for a minute,then change the speed and keep mixing for another 6 minutes or until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.( You can add different colors)

Spread it on any cake of your choice .

FONDANT ICING RECIPE

MERRY X MAS TO ALL

Ingredients


1.Gelatin  - 1 tsp
   Water  - 1 ounce
   Liquid glucose
   or                     - 1 dessert spoon
   light corn syurp

2. Glycerine -1/4 tsp
3.Icing Sugar - 400 gm

Preparation


Take sauce pan and mix  with water and  liquid glucose or corn syurp

Then add gelatin in it and melt gelatin by using double boil method.

After that add glycerine and icing sugar  and mix it well and make a soft dough (Add colour if  you want)

This is the dough for fondant icing  ,this batter should keep it  air tightened  container.or close it with cling film.

Then take this dough and press it like chapathi....spread icing sugar all over...

Once it become the size of cake (Above and sides of the cake  spread with whipped cream or royal icing )
Then cover the cake with  fondant icing sheet  and press through hand and make it shape..

Cut off the excess icing around the bottom of the cake..

Then decorate with  cherries and with Whipped cream or royal icing....

Do not refrigerate a cake with fondant icing..(Cake will become harder).Fondant icing keeps a cake fresh for two days in room temperature.

I got this recipe from VANITHA (DEC 1-14 / 2011)(malayalam Magazine).Then we can see so many videos in You Tube about Fondant Icing. I prepared  PINEAPPLE COCONUT CREAM CAKE IN My BLOG And did the Fondant icing)