Buttercream Icing

Name: Buttercream Icing
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes enough icing for 30 halfmoon cookies
Ingredients: 7 cups confectioners' sugar; 16 tbsp. room temperature butter, cut into pieces; 1 ⁄ 2 cup vegetable shortening; 7 Tbsp. milk; 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract; 1 pinch salt

Serves
makes enough icing for 30 halfmoon cookies

Fluffy, sugary, and butter rich, this frosting made a name for itself as one side of Hemstrought's Bakery's original Halfmoon Cookies.

Ingredients

7 cups confectioners' sugar
16 tbsp. room temperature butter, cut into pieces
¹⁄₂ cup vegetable shortening
7 Tbsp. milk
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1 pinch salt

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Instructions

Step 1

Put sugar, butter, shortening, milk, vanilla, and salt in the bowl of a standing mixer. Beat on low speed to mix, then increase to medium and beat until light and fluffy.