Cake frosting

You mean like growing your own sugar cane and making butter from your own dairy farm?

LOL! Maybe Vox....that is what the OP wants.... unless she or he will be specific on what scratch means .....

This is a very nice recipe...but don't skip beating the butter with the sugar. Beat until you can NOT feel any sugar granules between your fingers.

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Boiled Frosting

Frostings

1 cup milk 4 tablespoon flour 3/4 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix flour and milk over medium heat until it forms a paste. Let cool.

Mix butter and sugar together then beat in cooled flour and milk mixture. This will take 10 minutes, at least, until no sugar granules can be felt between fingers. Add vanilla.

Yield: 1 batch

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What do you mean, "prefabricated stuff"?

Butter, confectioners sugar, vanilla and a bit of cream... all pretty ordinary ingredients in my book.

Rina

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Butter Cream Frosting

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Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

-------- ------------ -------------------------------- 5 1/3 tablespoons butter -- 2/3 stick or 2 5/8 ounces 1/3 cup vegetable shortening -- 2 oz 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 pound confectioners' sugar -- 4 to 5 cups, sifted 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/4 cup milk or cream -- 1/4 to 1/3 cup, 2 to 2 1/2 oz

In a bowl beat together butter, shortening and salt until fluffy. Add about half the confectioners' sugar and beat slowly until well blended. Add the vanilla and half the milk and beat until fluffy.

Continue mixing in sugar and milk alternately until they've completely incorporated, and beat until the frosting is light and fluffy. To increase yield, If you want some frosting left over for decorating, change the ingredient amounts as follows: 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup veg shortening, approximately 6 cups sugar and up to 1/2 cup of milk or cream.

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NOTES : Will frost 8 or 9" layer cake, 9 x 13" cake, or 24 cupcakes

A very basic frosting is simply confectioners (powdered) sugar, a few drops of vanilla extract (or flavor of choice), and a little water. Add water to desired consistancy.

Use orange or lemon juice instead of vanilla and less water.

Try your local library for any book on cake baking, wedding / birthdays etc and you should find recipes for plain, boiled, butter creme , royal icing etc.

regards

I call that a glaze rather than a frosting.

Hallstream skrev:

Thanks for all answers to my question.

I feel rather stupid after realising the simplicity of the recepie and if I had thought of it a quick search on the internet would probobly have answered all my questions.

Regards, Mark

What kind of frosting are you looking for? There's plenty of varieties, and they're all pretty easy to do, and taste infinitely better than store-bought. For example, a simple cream cheese frosting:

8 oz softened cream cheese 4 ounces softened butter 4 cups confectioners (powdered) sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1-2 tbsp of milk Combine the butter and cream cheese with the paddle attachment of your mixer. Add the sugar, vanilla, and 1 tbsp of the milk. When it's creamy and smooth, check for consistency..if too thick, add a little more milk. Easy! You can change it up so many ways. Flavor with some orange oil and grated orange peel...or try lemon or lime the same way. Or, melt the butter and combine with 1/2 cup cocoa for the yummiest chocolate frosting.

Experiment!

kimberly