- 1/4 cup soft or melted margarine
- Good dash salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 cups powdered sugar
In a medium sized bowl, combine all of the ingredients. Mix and mix until all is smooth. Spread upon a 9 by 13-inch cake and serve. This is a very simple frosting which is put to it’s best advantage on spicy cakes, like Old Fashioned Gingerbread or Cinnamon Oatmeal Cake. It is also quite tasty on plain cookies like Quick Sugar Cookies. This recipe is easily doubled or tripled, and can also be tinted with food coloring for cool holiday effects.
This frosting is awesome! I used it on a cake that I made a few days ago and froze. On plain yellow cake (which is the type I spread it on), it would taste great too with lemon extract in it or other flavors.
can it be used to piping???
Looks awesome! i was looking for a recipe for chocolate frosting that didnt use egg whites. can you just add cocoa to make chocolate frosting?
prabhleen: it can probably be used for piping!
Excellent! I substituted coconut milk (about 4 TBS) for the milk to make it dairy free.
Can I substitute the margarine for butter instead? Thanks! I’ll be sure to try it next weekend(:
It is not a frosting its an icing!
this seems like a very nice recipe… :’D
thank you all for leaving comments!!!! i was unsure.. all the others had too much butter! and ethel, GO VEGAN!!! (im a vegetarian not vegan but i still support you all)
this seems like a perfect recipe. thank you to whoever posted this.. i really need a recipe! THANK YOU! :”D
Totally making this tomorrow, but with vegan butter and vanilla soymilk to frost some vegan confetti cupcakes. Very excited!
Amazing frosting. Great flavor but I personally think it was a bit better when I added a bit extra vanilla and milk, I like thinner frosting…But so yummy!