Best Old Fashioned Cooked Frosting Recipes

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OLD FASHIONED COOKED FUDGE FROSTING OR FUDGE..AWESOME



Old Fashioned Cooked Fudge Frosting or Fudge..awesome image

Cook four minutes and it is a great frosting. Cook five minutes and it is Fudge. Great old fashioned cooked Fudge frosting. The kind your Grandmother probably made.

Provided by evegpt

Categories     Candy

Time 9m

Yield 10 layers, 40 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 cups butter, this is a lb, 4 sticks
3/4 cup white Karo
13 ounces Carnation Evaporated Milk, undiluted
5 tablespoons hershey's cocoa
6 cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla flavoring

Steps:

  • Melt margarine in large boiler on medium heat.
  • Add Karo syrup, Carnation milk and Hershey's cocoa. Mix well and add sugar.
  • With unit on High heat, bring to a full rolling boil (one you can not stir down). Reduce heat to medium-high and boil for 4 minutes by the clock.
  • Remove from heat and beat with mixer on high until thick and creamy. Add vanilla.
  • Spread between layers of cake and on top layer and sides. This will frost 10 layers.
  • This recipe makes delicious fudge by cooking 5 minutes by the clock. Beat until thick and creamy. Add 2 cups chopped nuts. Pour into buttered pan and cut into squares when cool.

OLD FASHIONED COOKED FROSTING



Old Fashioned Cooked Frosting image

This is a great old-fashioned, heirloom recipe for a "not too sweet" frosting. Both my mother and grandmother used this.

Provided by Penny Burdge

Categories     Other Desserts

Time 25m

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 c whole milk
5 Tbsp butter, unsalted
3/4 c flour
1 c sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Steps:

  • 1. Whisk together the flour and milk in a small saucepan.
  • 2. Stirring constantly over med-low heat, cook to a thick paste. Let cool completely.
  • 3. Cream together the sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
  • 4. Beat in the vanilla.
  • 5. Beat in the cooled milk paste until it is the consistency of whipped cream.

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