How To: Make homemade dessert icing

While topping your cake or cupcake with icing is easiest done using storebought icing, we're sorry to inform you that most grocery store icing has high amounts of saturated fat and even trans fat, both of which clog your arteries and contribute to heart disease. Not so appetizing now, is it?

Check out this cake decorating tutorial to learn how to make a vanilla frosting with shortening, sugar, water or milk, cocoa powder, and food coloring.