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Strawberry Icing




Source of Recipe


Modern Family Cookbook 1942






List of Ingredients



• 1/4c. soft butter
  
• 3 to 3 1/2c. sifted XXXX sugar, packed
  
• pinch of salt
  
• 4T. strained strawberry juice
  
• 2T. cream
  
• sliced berries
  






Instructions



1. Cream butter until smooth, gradually blend in 3c. of the sugar and salt, adding strawberry juice and cream from time to time to produce a smooth spreading consistency.
   
2. Spread on cakes, saving out part of the icing. Add rest of sugar to make the mixture stiff enough to hold its shape.
   
3. With pastry tube, pipe rosettes on top of cake and garnish with slices of strawberry.
   
4. Makes: enough icing for two 8 inch layers or 16 small cupcakes.