Grandma's Penuche Frosting

This was my Grandmother's recipe. It was on a handwritten note inside her "school" cookbook. She made this often. It has been and will continue to be a family favorite. This is real good on chocolate cake.
- Ready In:
- 25mins
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15
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ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup hot milk
- powdered sugar (about 3 cups)
directions
- Melt butter in a large saucepan.
- Add brown sugar and bring to a boil.
- continue cooking for 1 minute until thickens.
- Let set 15 minutes.
- Mix in hot milk.
- Add powdered sugar gradually till spreading consisitancy.
- If it gets too thick add a little milk.
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This recipe never hardened up on my cupcakes, so I think it needed to boil longer than 1 minute. Letting it sit for 15 minutes seemed like too long since I used a very large pan and it totally hardened in the pan before I added the milk. It looked like it was going to sugar, but the end result was smooth and tasty and, even though it didn't get hard, only my brother knew that it didn't really turn out (like mom's!)
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