This is such an amateur question, I'm almost embarrassed to ask it...

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jan_in_evansville

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Ok, I'm 58 years old, an avid cook my whole life. I should know this, but I don't. I was never an angel food cake fan, but I went to a church social this summer, and after months of dieting I had a piece of angel food cake, thinking it would be pretty low calorie. Well, I don't know if I was starved for sugar or what, but it was wonderful. It was the icing - it was just a pink icing that was smeared all over the cake, not fluffy, it was flat - how do I make this? Is it powdered sugar, and butter and red food coloring. I should know this. Egads, this sounds so silly asking you all this, but I need to know how to make this icing. My birthday is coming up, and I WANT IT!!!! *grin* No problem making the cake, it's the ICING I can't figure out...

 
Jan, do you remember if it dried slightly "hard" or crunchy? Since I am currently

working throught my SIXTH 2-pound bag of powdered sugar making Royal Icing for the GBH From Hell, I am One with icing consistency.

If it's softer, then they may have added Karo syrup.

 
Hmmm, trying to remember...

It was softer, it wasn't hard or crunchy, it had more of a creamy consistency... Oh my, you sound like you know what you are talking about, Marilyn. That's 12 lbs. of powdered sugar. lol

 
Maybe just a wonderful butter icing. I do this with egg white too.....

I'm afraid I just make it so don't have list of quantities. Beat up butter till ,add sieved icing sugar and a little more than the recipe states and then add a beaten egg white. This sets creamy and fluffy...real bakers out there may have a fit at this recipe but it is all I use here in the tropics. (Usually for grandies birthday cakes)
I start with a +- 250 grams of butter and 1 bag of icing sugar and one egg white and add more icing sugar as I go along if necessary.

 
Try the recipe on the side of Domino's Confectioner's Sugar and

taste as you go, maybe adding some juice from a few strawberries or small amount of strawberry extract, along with the food coloring. If you figure it out I'd like to know as I used to get butter cookies from a bakery with a strawberry pink icing that I loved.

 
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