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Plain white homeade icing with not alot of flavor is just powdered sugar mixed with very hot water, but it has to be alot of sugar, proportionately. You just mix until it looks right, and remember it hardens a bit when it cools.
Some people really love this icing, esp. on cookies.
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Icing like for doughnuts or frosting like for cake? For icing, we just fill a cereal bowl with powdered sugar and first add a teaspoon of vanilla. That will give you an idea of how much liquid impacts the sugar. Then add milk in little splashes, stirring thoroughly.
For frosting, I put 1/3 cup room temperature butter in a bowl, add 2 cups powdered sugar, mix as much as I can (it will be pretty pasty), add 1/4 cup milk and any vanilla desired (if you are taking someones suggestion of quadrupling the vanilla, you won't need so much milk). This will make it very thin. Now slowly stir in 2 more cups of powdered sugar. Adjust consistency by either adding more sugar (to dry it) or milk in teaspoon increments (to moisten it.)
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1 box powdered sugar 1 stick butter/margarine A little milk to achieve proper consistency vanilla extract to taste ^^^^^^^ can also be ANY flavor extract, allowing for all sorts of fun frosting flavors.
Mix sugar, butter, and extract using a hand mixer. Add milk in tiny increments until the proper consistency is reached.
Frost cake.
Fight with siblings over who gets to lick the bowl, beaters, spoons, etc.
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