Fruity Vanilla Icing

Well, the first birthday has come and gone, and my computer is finally working again, so I thought I’d share what I did for the birthday cake. In the end I decided not to do anything too fancy since we found out with a pre-birthday cake that the little man doesn’t really actually like cake too much….

I made up just a plain golden boxed cake, and then whipped together some icing using a generic vanilla icing recipe. However, My Little Guy’s favourite food at the moment is strawberries, so I replaced all of the milk in the recipe with strawberry puree. The result was a light, fresh tasting strawberry vanilla icing – the highlight of the otherwise plain cake! It turned out really deliciously, and I think in the summer I’ll try out a blueberry icing, too! I imagine that replacing the liquid with a raspberry puree and adding it to a chocolate cake would be really tasty! Any other combinations you think would work really well?

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Jenn vanOosten

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, and love my city. I'm a Netflixer, choral music geek, bookworm, inventor of recipes (I take Artistic Licence on EVERYTHING that I make), wife of one, mother of two, and owner of a neurotic Schnauzer. I respect people who respect others. I love good food that's well done, but my favourite lunch is KD & hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm addicted to Clearance Shopping. I will ALWAYS get the product that I want at the price that I want, eventually.