Vanilla Butter frosting

Ingredients

125g of softened butter

250g of Icing sugar

2tbls hot water from the kettle

1tbls Vanilla essence

 Method

Cream butter until its really pale and fluffy, add in vanilla essence.

Add in the icing sugar. beat until smooth and fluffy and you get small peaks standing up if you lift the whisk out.  If its too stiff then add in a tablespoon of the hot water and mix again, if too runny then add in more icing sugar.

 Notes

For chocolate icing, replace 25g of the icing sugar with 25g of cocoa.