Famie'S Favorite Buttercream Icing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 (1 lb.) boxes 10x sugar
about 1/2 c. water
1/2 c. softened butter or margarine
1/2 c. butter flavored Crisco
1/4 tsp. lemon extract flavoring
1/2 tsp. almond extract flavoring
1 tsp. vanilla extract flavoring
dash of salt (to cut sweetness)

Preparation

Pour sugar in a medium size mixing bowl.
Add other ingredients except water.
Add about half the water and mix.
Add remaining water, a little at a time, as you mix.
When done it should be thick and creamy.
Put a spoon in and pull out, the peak formed by pulling spoon out should hold its shape.