[Short St. Cakes]

Its worth the time.
I use a basic cream cheese icing that goes with pretty much everything: 1 stick butter, 2 pkgs cream cheese, 1 t. vanilla, and 4-5 c. powdered sugar. (start with everything at room temperature; beat the butter and c.c. together first til smooth, then add other ingredients and beat til smooth.) viola.
then you can start adding extracts to get different flavors, lemon, mint, caramel, coffee, whatever.
good luck,
Jodi