cooked flour icing
This is an old-fashioned cooked flour icing recipe, which is nice and fluffy but not too sweet.It is my family's favorite icing, and the only icing that I ever use on red cakes. Always use real unsalted butter and whole milk. Using anything else will alter the taste and texture. I always make the icing before I make the cake so it has plenty of extra time to cool completely. If you like more icing to decorate, double the recipe.
yield
serving(s)
prep time
1 Hr 10 Min
cook time
25 Min
method
Stove Top
Ingredients For cooked flour icing
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1 cup whole milk
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4 tablespoons cake flour
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1/2 cup crisco
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1 stick of unsalted butter, softened
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1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla
How To Make cooked flour icing
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1In a blender, mix the milk and cake flour until blended. (This trick prevents those little flour chunks and blends the milk and flour together nicely). Pour mixture into a small sauce pan. Or, if you don’t want to use a blender you can just whisk the cold milk and flour in a small saucepan until well combined. Either way will work. -
2Turn the stove to medium heat, and whisk the mixture CONSTANTLY until slightly thick. (It should look like the consistency of pudding). This can take approx. 5-8 minutes.
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3When mixture has become slightly thick, set aside to cool completely at room temperature. This takes an approximately an hour. Note: (If you continue on to make the icing before it is COMPLETELY cooled, or ice the cake while it is still warm, the icing will not be fluffy. It will be a thin icing that does not resemble white fluffy icing at all. :(
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4In a mixing bowl, cream the Crisco and butter until combined.
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5Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat for about a 2 minutes.
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6With a fork, skim off the top dried layer of the cooled milk mixture and discard.
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7Add the cooled milk mixture to the powdered sugar mixture in the mixing bowl and beat at high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes
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8Ice the cake!
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