cooked flour icing
This is an old-fashioned cooked flour icing recipe, which is nice and fluffy but not too sweet.It is my family's favorite icing, and the only icing that I ever use on red cakes. Always use real unsalted butter and whole milk. Using anything else will alter the taste and texture. I always make the icing before I make the cake so it has plenty of extra time to cool completely. If you like more icing to decorate, double the recipe.
prep time
1 Hr 10 Min
cook time
25 Min
method
Stove Top
yield
icing for one cake or 12 cup cakes
Ingredients
- - 1 cup whole milk
- - 4 tablespoons cake flour
- - 1/2 cup crisco
- - 1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
- - 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
- - 1 teaspoon vanilla
How To Make cooked flour icing
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Step 1In a blender, mix the milk and cake flour until blended. (This trick prevents those little flour chunks and blends the milk and flour together nicely). Pour mixture into a small sauce pan. Or, if you don’t want to use a blender you can just whisk the cold milk and flour in a small saucepan until well combined. Either way will work.
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Step 2Turn the stove to medium heat, and whisk the mixture CONSTANTLY until slightly thick. (It should look like the consistency of pudding). This can take approx. 5-8 minutes.
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Step 3When mixture has become slightly thick, set aside to cool completely at room temperature. This takes an approximately an hour. Note: (If you continue on to make the icing before it is COMPLETELY cooled, or ice the cake while it is still warm, the icing will not be fluffy. It will be a thin icing that does not resemble white fluffy icing at all. :(
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Step 4In a mixing bowl, cream the Crisco and butter until combined.
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Step 5Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat for about a 2 minutes.
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Step 6With a fork, skim off the top dried layer of the cooled milk mixture and discard.
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Step 7Add the cooled milk mixture to the powdered sugar mixture in the mixing bowl and beat at high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes
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Step 8Ice the cake!
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