Substitute for Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

5 tbsp. Flour

1 c. Milk

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

1 c. Butter

1 c. Granulated fine Sugar

(not powdered sugar!)

 Direction:

In a small saucepan, pour in flour and milk, and use a wire whisk to stir constantly while heating it up. It needs to thicken. At first you think nothing will happen because the mixture is very thin. But this will change, trust me :-)
It has to be very thick. Stir and stir and stir so it won’t burn to the saucepan’s bottom. When it is thick enough, remove from heat and let it cool completely to room temperature. You really should stick to this, it must be completely cool before you stir in vanilla.

While you wait for the mixture to cool down to room temperature, cream the butter and sugar together until it is all light and fluffy.

Now it is time to add the cooled flour mixture and beat it all together with a hand mixer. It can look seperated at first, if it does, beat it a little longer. Beat it until it looks like whipped cream.

When the frosting is looking yummy AND tasting yummy (come on, give it a try!) you can spread it on your cooled red velvet cake.

HAPPY EATING! :)