Flour Frosting (Vanilla)
By: ping
Published: Monday, October 11, 2010 - 7:12pm

Ingredients




5 tablespoons plain flour
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup butter
1 cup granulated sugar

Preparation

1 In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. 2 Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature. 3 Stir in vanilla. Leave to cool. 4 Using an electric mixer/whisk, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Then add cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.  5 Spread or pipe onto cooled cake or cupcakes. 6 Leftover frosting can be refrigerated but needs to be re-whipped before use.

About


This is a very easy frosting to work with. But it does take a while before it gets to resemble whipped cream. Don't give up even when it looks like a curdled mess, keep whipping and it'll come together beautifully!