Miracle Frosting

Name: Miracle Frosting
Yield: Makes about 4 cups (enough for two 9-inch cake layers)
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (10½ ounces), granulated sugar; 1/4 cup (1¼ ounces), all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1 1/2 cups, whole milk; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 24 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened (3 sticks), cut into 24 pieces

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

This old-time recipe miraculously transforms as you beat it, but it needed a little modern-day help.

SERVESMakes about 4 cups (enough for two 9-inch cake layers)

TIME40 minutes, plus 2 hours cooling and 1 hour resting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To produce our Miracle Frosting, we started by heating and stirring flour and milk into a thick paste, beating together sticks of butter and granulated sugar, adding the paste, and continuing to beat. To firm the icing and make it more spre...

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