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I tried to make cupcakes for a coworkers birthday, and some for my fiancé. They turned out great, but the icing ruined them. I made a second batch of icing and it turned out even worse, and I hate wasting food and money - I'm on a tight budget.
I made the following recipe from "vegan cupcakes take over the world":
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup margarine
3 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup soy milk
This batch turned out liquid! It was fluffy at first - when it was just the shortening and margarine. But as I added everything else, it got more and more like soup!
So I tried again, leaving out the milk. This time after I adds the sugar and vanilla, it got liquid-y again - but worse! It almost seemed to separate, and has oily parts and like harder parts in a pool of oily parts. It's awful
I'm really discouraged because this happened the last time I tried to make icing - and that was a few years ago. I've never tried since because it went so bad, and it was worse this time.
I made the following recipe from "vegan cupcakes take over the world":
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup margarine
3 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup soy milk
This batch turned out liquid! It was fluffy at first - when it was just the shortening and margarine. But as I added everything else, it got more and more like soup!
So I tried again, leaving out the milk. This time after I adds the sugar and vanilla, it got liquid-y again - but worse! It almost seemed to separate, and has oily parts and like harder parts in a pool of oily parts. It's awful
I'm really discouraged because this happened the last time I tried to make icing - and that was a few years ago. I've never tried since because it went so bad, and it was worse this time.