Our cookie icing recipe is easy to make, calls for just five ingredients, and sets quickly. It's the perfect icing for sugar ...

Use this simple buttercream icing recipe to decorate your birthday cakes, cupcakes and sandwich biscuits. Try adding a little food colouring gel for a splash of colour to your butter icing.

For the cookies: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the butter, granulated sugar ... For the royal icing: In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle ...

Make sure your cake is cold before adding buttercream icing. Any residual heat will melt the butter in your icing and make it difficult to work with or even melt completely and slip off your cake.