Recipe#4248

Title: Decorator

From: Penny Padgett padgett@intellicorp.com 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Decorator's Frosting 
 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:11:03 GMT 
 Message-ID: <199701250042.QAA22183@nala.intellicorp.com> 

1/2 c. solid vegetable shortening
 1/2 c. butter or magarine, softened
 1 lb. confectioner's sugar (about 4 cups)
 2 Tb. milk or water
 1 t. vanilla
 Cream shortening and butter.  Add sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat
 until smooth and creamy in texture, adding more milk a drop at a
 time if necessary.  Store in refrigerator up to 2 weeks, beating
 again before using.  Makes 3 cups of stiff icing for decorating.
 Add 2 t. of milk per cup of icing to thin it for icing cakes.
 [Another goodie from the booklet:  they recommend you use stiff
 icing to make flowers, medium-stiff icing to make borders, and thin
 icing to make writing and leaves.]