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I am making a blues clues birthday cake for my nephews birthday and i was wondering if anyone had any good recipes for icing ..

Thanks Natasha
p.s sorry if this is on the wrong board

You've got the right board ^__^

I love making home made frosting, but I'm afraid I do it by eye, so I can't give exact measurements. I'll do my best though.

I use powdered sugar, shortening, milk, and vanilla extract. And of course, you can add whatever food colouring you want to it.
Like I said, I don't know the exact measurements, I use about a half of a package of a standard sized bag of powdered sugar, several heaping tablespoons of shortening, a little bit of milk, and a tiny bit of vanilla. I mix it up, and if it's too thin, I add more shortening and sugar, if it's too thick, more milk.
Once it's the right flavour and consistancy, add just a little bit of food colouring (follow the directions on the packaging). Remember, you can always add more if there's not enough, but if your frosting turns out scarily dark.. there's not much you can do about it.

Also, this frosting is, in my opinion, the best tasting frosting ever. It's not too sweet (which is often a problem I have with store bought frostings/frosted cakes)

thank you.. I like to use my own measurements aswell that way i get it the way i want thanks again

De nada mi muchacha (It was nothing my friend). Be sure to let me know how it turns out.

When I make cakes, I just make the icing out of icing sugar and water

Though there's been times when I made icing just to eat it

lol my partner makes me make him chocolate icing to eat makes himself sick cause he will eat the whole thing just so it doesn't go to waste

Oh you people put me to shame, I have never made icing from scratch, I either use icing sugar and water or I completely cheat and buy the stuff ready made!! Or my usual trick is to pay someone else to make the kids b'day cakes......oh I am sooooo ashamed

Almost sounds like something my father would do.

Good luck with the cake. Remember to have fun, too.

took me over 3 hours to do the icing and then i tried to ice arond the sides and there is crumbs all in the icing ohh well i will fix it some how