Homemade Buttercream Frosting and How to Spread It on a Cake

19/02/2016 · Updated on: 17/05/2023

homemade vanilla buttercream frosting how to make

In this video we’ll show you how to make vanilla buttercream for icing (frosting) a cake and how to apply the butter cream to the cake.

This basic buttercream frosting has unmatchable homemade taste. With a few simple variations, you can come up with different colors and flavors

Simple Vanilla Buttercream Recipe
½ cup butter (120g)
3 cups icing sugar (300g)
2 teaspoons vanilla (10mL)
4 tablespoons milk (60mL) OR LESS

Sylvia Collins

Sylvia Collins baked her first birthday cake for her little sister when she was twelve, and it sank right in the middle. A few hundred cakes later, she shares her favorite cake and dessert recipes on Cakes Mania from her kitchen in Columbus, Ohio. She is a mom of three, so there is never a shortage of volunteers for the leftover frosting.