old fashioned cooked frosting

Name: Old Fashioned Cooked Frosting
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup(s) whole milk; 5 tablespoon(s) butter, unsalted; 3/4 cup(s) flour; 1 cup(s) sugar; 1 teaspoon(s) pure vanilla extract

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Penny Burdge

Lenexa, KS

Updated on Feb 24, 2017

This is a great old-fashioned, heirloom recipe for a "not too sweet" frosting. Both my mother and grandmother used this.

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Stove Top

yield Frosts a 2 layer cake

Ingredients

1 cup whole milk
5 tablespoons butter, unsalted
3/4 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

How To Make old fashioned cooked frosting

Step 1

Whisk together the flour and milk in a small saucepan.

Step 2

Stirring constantly over med-low heat, cook to a thick paste. Let cool completely.
Step 3

Cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
Step 4

Beat in the vanilla.
Step 5

Beat in the cooled milk paste until it is the consistency of whipped cream.
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