best white icing ever

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon clear imitation vanilla extract

Recipe

• in a large bowl, combine sugar, shortening, water and vanilla. beat on low speed to combine, then beat on medium speed for a full five minutes. it won't look like icing at first, but keep the mixer going for a full five minutes, and then you're done!
• note: if you're not using this for decorating, but just for icing the cake, thin the icing by adding 3 tbs. of corn syrup, or water to the icing.