Butter Cream Frosting from the Plaza
"Brandy makes this special --"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1⁄8 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 1⁄4 cups softened kerry irish gold sweet butter
- 1 tablespoon good brandy
directions
- Combine sugar, water and cream of tartar in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves.
- Cook over medium heat until syrup reaches 230 degrees, or until it spins a thread.
- Beat egg yolks until light and lemon-colored. Gradually beat in syrup until the mixture is stiff and almost white.
- Cut butter into very small pieces and gradually beat into the egg mixture with an electric mixer until the frosting is smooth and creamy.
- Flavor with brandy. Chill until the mixture is firm enough to spread.
- This makes enough to frost 2 9-inch layers of cake.
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Reviews
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Very close to what Mom used to make. I used on cupcakes. Will be making this again real soon.
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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas...
have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people...
recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor...
a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway]
sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!!
the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter...
also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree...
for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
