Americana Icing

I love using this as a frosting or a filling because it is light and creamy, and less sweet than the Classic Americana Icing. It tastes just like whipped cream. 

While the cupcakes are baking, prepare the Classic Americana Icing, using the vanilla extract or almond, peppermint, or orange extract (see Note). 

Betalains have received much attention from the food industry as natural colour additives (Adams et at, 1976 Pourrat et at, 1983). The betacyanins from red beet are used for colouring ice cream, jam and fruit conserves. Earlier interest in betacyanins came from their use in colouring red wine, although this was prohibited by law in 1892 due to the use of the apparently harmful pokeberry Phytolacca americana, extract (Dreiding, 1961). 

Head and thoracic ganglia from eighty cockroaches (P. americana) were homogenized in ice-cold 0.25M sucrose (buffered to pH 7.2 with Tris.HCl) and fractionated as far as the crude synaptosomal... 

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