Decided to make a cake last night - and re-decided to make cupcakes
(because you can get 24 of those compared to just one cake:)
The question was the frosting for my devil food chocolate cupcakes...I checked the net and bumped into this recipe and remembered my MIL used to put this same type of frosting on her Red Velvet cake that everyone requested at family functions.
This is weird sounding but very, very yummy.
Flour Frosting
Ingredients
5 Tablespoons Flour
1 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Butter
1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar)
Instructions
In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. You want it to be very, very thick. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. It must be completely cool before you use it in the next step. Stir in vanilla when cool.
While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. You don’t want any sugar graininess left.(this took a long time with my mixer on high) Then add the completely cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat it on high speed. Beat it until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.
Spread it on a cooled cake or cupcakes, etc.
Taste great right out of the bowl and it’s awesome cold
(I put the cupcakes in the fridge)
My grandmother used to put that frosting on red velvet cake too. Now all you get is cream cheese which I don’t like because it doesn’t taste “right” to me.