Ultimate Buttercream Frosting

Nothing is better than a sugar cookie with fluffy, light buttercream frosting on it.  This recipe is just that.  

Shown here on sugar cookie bars 

Delicious, Perfect Buttercream Frosting

1 cup butter, softened to room temperature (very important that it is soft)*

4 cup powdered sugar 

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 Tablespoons cream, half and half, canned milk, or milk. Cream is best, but all work

Put the butter in your mixing bowl. You can use you electric mixer or hand mixer.  Beat until very fluffy. Gradually add the powdered sugar.  Add some, beat, add some , beat, etc until it is all mixed in. Add the vanilla and 2 Tablespoons cream. Gradually add more cream until it is the consistency you want. You can add a few drops food coloring if you would like. Beat well and plead on the cooled cookie bars.
* You can soften butter by putting hot water in a glass, pouring out the water, then putting the warm gas’s over the stick of butter. Let it sit for awhile.