What is cupcake icing made of?

Answer 1

There are many different recipes but the general one is confectioners sugar, a dash of salt, butter and vanilla. You substitute cream cheese for the butter for a cream cheese frosting or use a different extract for the vanilla ie.. almond, peppermint. Or you can add cocoa to make a chocolate one. Oh and add a bit of milk, a little at a time, until you get the consistency you want.

Answer 2

For the sponge you use:

100grams of self raising flour

100grams of caster sugar

100grams of butter

2 eggs

For the topping you can use:

Glacé icing

Water

Icing sugar

Butter cream

Butter

Icing sugar

Frosting

Icing sugar

Milk, alcohol or any other types of liquid.

You can always add a table spoon of cocoa for a chocolate flavour.

This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.

Answer 3

It is hard to say because there are so many different mixes... chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and so on.

I am a big fan of making them from scratch so you KNOW what is in them. If the recipe happens to call for a box of "cake mix" you can always use a cake mix substitute like the one in the link.