Many housewives are wondering how to prepare icing for the cake. We decided to answer all your questions about this - all controversial points and all the most interesting ways of cooking are collected in this small article. There are several options for making icing for the cake.
So, the icing for the cake according to the first recipe is prepared from the following products: half a glass of sugar, 2 tablespoons of water, lemon juice - squeeze half a lemon for this, 2 eggs - we need only protein, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt.
First, beat the whites with salt and lemon juice. Sugar is dissolved in water and heated over a fire - you need to make syrup, add hot syrup to the protein mixture, beat for another 3 minutes. After the cupcakes are ready, you need to spread them with icing. 2 hours after this, the muffins can be eaten - the icing will have time to harden by this time.
In order to make the icing for the cake according to the second recipe, you will need the following products: half a glass of powdered sugar and 1 protein. The glaze is white. Beat the protein. Inject sugar slowly. Frosts an hour later after you spread it on a cupcake.
If you decide to make colored icing for a cupcake, then the third recipe will come in handy! It is quite tasty and easy to prepare. You will need half a glass of warm water, half a kilogram of powdered sugar, dye.
It is better to sift the icing sugar, then pour water into the icing, start to warm over low heat, stirring constantly. Get syrup. Remove the syrup from the fire, add dye to it, stir and apply colored glaze on the cupcakes.
According to the fourth recipe, the icing for the cake is prepared from the following ingredients: 1 tablespoon of water, 100 grams of sugar, 50 grams of butter. Cook the syrup from sugar and water, then melt the butter in a steam bath and add to the syrup. Stir thoroughly, then water the cake with this mixture.
And the strawberry icing for the cake is done this way: 3 tablespoons of strawberry juice and 200 grams of powdered sugar are mixed, stirred, heated over a small fire until thickened.
Pleasantly complement the taste of your culinary masterpiece with chocolate icing for cake. The easiest and fastest way to prepare it is this: melt a pair of a bar of dark chocolate, add melted butter and mix the ingredients thoroughly. Apply to muffins, and to freeze, place them in the refrigerator.
For those who are not looking for easy ways, we offer another recipe for chocolate glaze: 100 grams of sugar or powdered sugar, 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 100 grams of sour cream or cream, 100 grams of butter. Melt the butter, add sugar, cocoa into it, add sour cream to the mixture. Stir, cook over low heat. Bring to a boil, cool.
And this recipe is useful to you if you decide to bake gingerbread cookies. Agree, after all, it is icing that is the highlight of this dish. In addition, many people like the glaze for the gingerbread that they buy in the store. And everything cooked by yourself, as a rule, is several times tastier than bought, so you should try to cook this dish. So, when the gingerbread cookies are ready, it remains only to make the icing. Especially for you, we have prepared two options: white glaze and chocolate glaze.
White icing is done like this: 1 protein is whipped with 100 grams of powdered sugar, brought to a boil, cooled and applied to a flour product.
To make chocolate icing, melt a bar of chocolate and mix it with butter and 20% cream. It’s enough oil and 1 tablespoon, and cream - 100 grams.
By the way, these glaze recipes can be used not only to anoint muffins and gingerbread cookies. Such icing can serve as a decoration for cakes and cakes.