Brown Butter Frosting
This browned butter frosting is so easy and SO delicious it is going to become your new fall favorite dessert topping. Slather it on our favorite apple cake or a carrot cake, pumpkin muffins, or gingerbread cookies. You’ll never look back.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
- 1 (16 oz) package of powdered sugar
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a sauce pan over medium heat for about 6 – 8 minutes. Be sure to stir it constantly so the butter doesn’t burn. It will bubble and foam, but just keep stirring. When the butter has a nutty aroma and has turned golden toasty brown, pour it into a small bowl and place it in the fridge to cool for 1 hour.
- Once the butter has started to solidify, scrape it into a mixing bowl. Beat the butter with the powdered sugar adding a little at a time.
- Add the vanilla and beat it in. Pour 4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) of the milk in and beat it in. If the frosting is too thick, add the remaining milk 1 tablespoon at a time, beating it in after each addition, until smooth.
- Once the frosting is smooth, increase the mixer speed to high and beat for 1 minute to make the frosting light and fluffy.
- Store any dessert you use this on in the refrigerator so the milk doesn’t spoil.