Frosting

Hello,

I have been baking all weekend! Yesterday I made a Caramel-Walnut Upside-Down Banana Cake and 6 dozen cookies. Today I made two chocolate silk pies and 22 cupcakes! I will surely give you the recipes for all of those tasty treats but today I would like to talk about the frosting.

Frosting is a strange thing. There are many different types and many different ways to make it. Everyone has their own frosting recipe that they swear by. They claim it is the best frosting the world has ever tasted. I am here to tell everyone else that they are wrong. I have discovered a formula for frosting that can make a grown man weep. This frosting recipe is actually based off of one I found in the Better Home and Gardens cookbook (which is an amazing cookbook by the way, and everyone should own a copy!). It is a really simple recipe that requires on four common ingredients. This recipe can also be used for everything. You can frost a cake or cupcakes with it, spread it on graham crackers, or just eat it plain. It is AMAZING!!! Try it out!

Frosting

1 cup of butter flavored Crisco (or other type of shortening)

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

 About 4 cups of powdered sugar (which is equivalent to 1 lb. or half a bag)

And 2 to 3 tablespoons of milk

Mix the Crisco and vanilla together. The slowly add about half the powered sugar. Add the milk. The slowly add the rest of the powdered sugar until it reaches spreading consistency.

What is important about this recipe is that you beat the heck out of the frosting. If you have a wonderful stand mixer turn it up to the highest speed at the end and let it get really fluffy.

It is a really really simply recipe so try it out the next time you some frosting.

Nancy