Strangely Delicious Frosting

Believe it or not, I am picky about frosting.

I know, you can not believe it.

I am one of those people who will usually scrape all but 1/8 of the frosting off of a piece of cake. Something about it is usually too heavy for me.

This particular frosting recipe, however, caught my eye when I saw that there was no powdered sugar in it and it was made with FLOUR.

Weird, right?

This frosting is light...almost whipped....and quite tasty! You should give it a try. I (again) made 1/2 of the original recipe and had plenty left over.

You will need:

2.5 tbsp flour

1/2 cup milk (or half and half if you are trying to get rid of it)

1/2 tsp vanilla

1 stick butter

1/2 cup sugar (the real stuff...get yo powdery mess outta here)

First off, put your butter and sugar into a bowl so the butter can be softening.

Your next step will be pouring the milk and flour into a saucepan.

Heat it over medium/high and be sure to stir stir stir. We don't want any burnt milkflour.

Try and make sure you have a gigantic whisk.

Ok, so that might not actually be important....it was all I had.

You want to stir your milkflour until it is the consistency of brownie batter - aka - pretty thick. It should not be runny. Repeat! No runny runny.

It should actually be quite globular. Goopy. Thickly.

Once you have removed your milkflour from the burner and it has had a few minutes to cool, add the vanilla and mix it in well.

Next you will let this mixture sit until it is completely cool. Mine took about 20 minutes.

Now you need to go back to your butter/sugar combo that has been quietly softening in the corner and mix until light and fluffy.

If your butter is not soft this step is not going to work.

If your butter is not even close to soft and you try putting it in the microwave you are going to end up with a gloppy mess.

Trust me on this one.

Once your butter/sugar mixture is nice and fluffy, add your completely cooled milkflour on in.

And mix mix mix. You want to mix until it resembles whipped cream....and then keep mixing.

An insider's tip: go ahead and take a taste test when you think you've mixed enough. If you still have sugar granules, keep mixing! It might take several minutes.

Once you have mixed your little heart out you can either plop some frosting into a baggie and do cute little swirlies:

Or you can slather it on with a butter knife. Whichever.

OR! You could put it directly IN your mouth.

That works too!

Coming soon....chocolate cake recipe!

-Plain Nicole