Decorator Cake Icing - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb 10x powdered sugar
1/3 cup shortening (prefer crisco)
1/4 cup water (room temp)
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 drops butter flavoring (found with other extracts etc in cake decorator aisle)
any food coloring

Preparation

mix all ingredients on low. great for a kitchen aid mixer but hard on the arm if using a old time mixer. add color a few drops at a time until desired color is acheived.
you can also drop color into water if mixing several different colors to acheive a certain color.
pack into sleeve with tip needed and decorate!
**TIP** if using for several different colors that won't need a lot of icing like making flowers etc, mix beofre adding color and separate into several different sections then add coloring a little at a time to acheive color needed**.