Silly me..

Hi everyone

In one of my posts I provided my banana cake recipe and said at the end you might like to make lemon cream cheese icing to go with it. Did I put up the recipe for said icing?? NO and not unreasonably Ive been asked what it is? I can hear husband saying "Do it once. Do it right" in my ear.

So its a simple recipe from the good old edmonds cook book with a few extra options.

Ingredients 

2 tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup cream cheese
1 cup icing sugar sifted
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
Optional 
- a drop or two of lemon flavored food coloring 
- a further teaspoon of lemon rind for decoration or
- 1/4 cup of walnuts or pecans lightly broken up

Basic process is beat the butter and cream cheese together until creamy and you can't see any chunks of butter in the mixture. Mix in the icing sugar and the lemon rind beating until well combined. 

Now for the options - if using food coloring id suggest one drop at a time. Too much and your icing will look the color of the sun which may not be the effect you want. Once iced I usually put either the extra lemon rind on for effect or the walnuts or pecans. Note I don't crush the nuts as I think just breaking them up in your hands is better if you can and your not left with lots of crumbs on your beautiful clean icing.

Note this icing is great on carrot cake too. 

Enjoy

Me xx