Cooked Icing

80m
Prep Time
5-8m
Cook Time
1h 25m
Ready In

Recipe: #3798

January 01, 2012



"This is an old-fashioned cooked icing recipe, which is nice and fluffy but not too sweet. This is the only icing that I use on red cake. I learned how to make this icing from my aunt, whom made red cakes for our family and our community for decades. Always use real unsalted butter and whole milk. Using anything else will alter the taste and texture. If you try to add the cooked mixture to the rest of the icing ingredients before it has cooled completely, it will not be fluffy. It will be runny.I always make the icing before I make the cake so it has plenty of extra time to cool completely. You can always double the icing recipe if you want to decorate the cake. Most of the time, I make 1-1/2 the amount of icing because we like lots of icing on cakes."

Original is 12 servings

Nutritional

  • Serving Size: 1 (69.5 g)
  • Calories 199.2
  • Total Fat - 9.8 g
  • Saturated Fat - 2.1 g
  • Cholesterol - 2.2 mg
  • Sodium - 4737.3 mg
  • Total Carbohydrate - 27.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber - 0.3 g
  • Sugars - 26 g
  • Protein - 1 g
  • Calcium - 27.5 mg
  • Iron - 0.1 mg
  • Vitamin C - 0 mg
  • Thiamin - 0 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

In 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.

Step 2

Turn 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.

Step 3

When mixture has become slightly thick, set aside to cool completely at room temperature. This takes an approximately an hour.

Step 4

In a mixing bowl, cream the Crisco and butter until combined.

Step 5

Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat for about a minute.

Step 6

With a fork, skim off the top dried layer of the cooled milk mixture.

Step 7

Add the cooled milk mixture to the powdered sugar mixture in the mixing bowl and beat at high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes or so.

Step 8

Ice the cake.

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