Buttercream Frosting

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 slightly beaten egg yolks
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon flavored extract (vanilla, almond, lemon, whatever your choice)
• 1/2 lb unsalted butter

Recipe

• 1 in a 2 qrt sauce pan mix the cornstarch and sugar.
• 2 stir in milk and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
• 3 boil about two (2) to three (3) minutes.
• 4 remove from heat and quickly stir 1/4 cup of the hot mix into the stirred egg yolk.
• 5 add egg mixture to hot mix and return to heat, continue boiling for two more minutes.
• 6 add butter and flavor extract.
• 7 stir until well blended.
• 8 cool pudding to room temperature, place some plastic wrap on top of pudding to prevent skin from forming during the cooling process.
• 9 set out butter to bring to room temperature.
• 10 butter and pudding should be the same temperature.
• 11 cream butter in large mixing bowl.
• 12 add pudding to creamed butter 1 tbsp at the time until all pudding is mixed with butter or the frosting has desired spreading consistency.
• 13 will frost two (2) nine inch (9") cakes.