Buttercream Frosting
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
2 cups
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 2 slightly beaten egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon flavored extract (vanilla, almond, lemon, whatever your choice)
- 1⁄2 lb unsalted butter
directions
- In a 2 qrt sauce pan mix the cornstarch and sugar.
- Stir in milk and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
- Boil about two (2) to three (3) minutes.
- Remove from heat and quickly stir 1/4 cup of the hot mix into the stirred egg yolk.
- Add egg mixture to hot mix and return to heat, continue boiling for two more minutes.
- Add butter and flavor extract.
- Stir until well blended.
- Cool pudding to room temperature, place some plastic wrap on top of pudding to prevent skin from forming during the cooling process.
- Set out butter to bring to room temperature.
- Butter and pudding should be the same temperature.
- Cream butter in large mixing bowl.
- Add pudding to creamed butter 1 tbsp at the time until all pudding is mixed with butter or the frosting has desired spreading consistency.
- Will frost two (2) nine inch (9") cakes.
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