Miracle Coffee Frosting

Name: Miracle Coffee 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 tablespoons, instant espresso powder; 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

Cook's Extras

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

Our approach to old-fashioned boiled milk coffee frosting was unconventional, but the result was fluffy, flavorful icing the likes of which we’d never tasted. We started by heating and stirring flour and milk into a thick paste, beating tog...

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