Making or purchasing icing in large quantities is a great way to save money and ensure that you always have icing for desserts. Eventually, eating icing that is always the same flavor can get kind of boring. Starting with plain icing, you can use flavor extracts and food dye to change the flavor of your icing in a matter of minutes. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Decide what flavor of icing you want. Once you have decided, choose a flavor extract to match. Flavor extracts are readily available at most grocery stores and can be found in the baking and spice aisle. Some popular flavor extracts are vanilla, lemon, orange, mint and almond.
Place your icing in a bowl. Start flavoring by adding ½ tsp. of extract for each cup of icing. Stir the extract into the icing with a spoon. Taste to see if the flavor is to your liking. If you want a stronger flavor, continue adding extract a few drops at a time, stirring and tasting until you get the flavor you desire.
Add color to match your icing to its new flavor. If you have decided to add lemon extract to your icing, add in a few drops of yellow food dye. If you chose mint extract, a drop or two of green food dye will dye white icing a light mint green.
Use your newly flavored icing to frost cakes or cupcakes or to decorate sugar cookies. Store any unused icing in the refrigerator.
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