Frosting

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's PartyEpisode: Paula to the Rescue

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (7)

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COMMENTS & REVIEWS(7)

Cook Time:
10 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
enough frosting for 1 whole cake

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Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 10 min
Total:: 30 min

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Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick butter)
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/3 cup heavy cream, or more if necessary
1 (16-ounce) box confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Your favorite cake recipe
1 cup chopped nuts, optional

Directions

To prepare frosting, melt butter in saucepan over medium heat and stir in brown sugar and cream. Bring to a boil, then transfer to a mixing bowl. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat with a handheld electric mixer until it reaches a spreading consistency. At this time it may be necessary to add a tablespoon of heavy cream, or more, if frosting gets too thick. Just be sure to add cream in small amounts because you can always "add to," but you can't take away. Frost your cake and sprinkle the top with chopped nuts, if desired.

Cook's Note: To fix "runny icing," add additional powdered sugar until the consistency is right.

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Comments & Reviews

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Jacklyn Shelby, MI 07-03-2009
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tastey but hard to handle
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

it tastes absloutely fansastic. great carammel-y taste, but impossible to handle. beware and caution.
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Anonymous 09-05-2008
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Fab-U-Lous
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

My family loved this icing
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Anonymous 04-11-2008
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Frosting
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

This is a very sweet forsting. We had to thin it out w/ a little more whipping cream, but a typical Paula recipe:)
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Anonymous 01-07-2008
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Makayla's Frosting Review
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I love this revipe its so good and helped me in time i forgot to buy ising!
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susan clinton township, MI 01-29-2007
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Yucko!!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Im not a big fan of this frosting!If you want a Good Butter-Cream frosting stick to Regular Sugar.This recipe lost all of... it's buttery flavor by being drowned in the confectioners sugar.Read more
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Anonymous 01-03-2007
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Too sweet!
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I think Paula's trying to turn us diabetic. It was an easy recipe, but it was just too sweet.