Creamy Butter Frosting Anne Of Green Gables Recipes

CREAMY BUTTERSCOTCH PUDDING - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Steps:

• Equipment You Will Need:.
• 2 small mixing bowls.
• fork.
• heavy medium saucepan.
• measuring cups.
• measuring spoons.
• wooden spoon.
• serving bowl.
• plastic wrap.
• Directions:.
• Break the eggs and separate them into the two small mixing bowls. Beat the yolks with the fork and set them aside.
• Combine the brown sugar, cornstarch, and salt in the medium saucepan. With the wooden spoon gradually stir in the milk.
• Place the saucepan over medium heat. Cook and stir the mixture until it is thick and bubbling - about 10 - 15 minutes. Stir and cook for 2 more minutes, and then take the saucepan off the heat.
• Dip a measuring cup into the hot mixture and take out about 1 cup. Very slowly stir the cup of hot mixture into the egg yolks. Then stir the hot egg-yolk mixture into the large saucepan.
• Stirring constantly, cook over medium heat for 2 more minutes.
• Take the saucepan off the heat and add the butter and vanilla. Stir with the wooden spoon until the butter melts.
• Pour pudding into the serving bowl. To keep a skin from forming on top, carefully place a piece of plastic wrap over the hot pudding and let it cool - about 1 minute. Remove the plastic wrap and spoon the pudding into small bowls.

BEST BUTTERCREAM FROSTING

Steps:

• In small saucepan cook flour and milk until it forms a ball, stirring constantly. Cool to room temperature.
• With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Beat both mixtures together on high speed until fluffy and smooth. Add vanilla and beat until combined. Refrigerate for about 1/2 hour, until it is of spreading consistency.

BUTTERCREAM ICING

Steps:

• Beat 600g sifted icing sugar and 300g butter together with your chosen flavouring and colouring if using, add 2-3 tablespoons of boiling water to loosen and beat until smooth.
• Fill a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe onto cupcakes or smear in the middle and over the top of a 20cm cake using a palette knife.

BUTTER CREAM ICING (BUTTERCREAM FROSTING)

Steps:

• Cream butter and then add vanilla and optional salt. (To cut the sweetness I usually sprinkle some salt in the vanilla, so it will dissolve.).
• Add sugar a cup at a time beating on medium speed. Add milk 1 Tbls. at a time and beat on high until completely blended and desired consistency.

BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• In a bowl beat butter or margarine until fluffy. Gradually add 2 cups of the confectioners' sugar, beating well.
• Slowly beat in the milk and vanilla. Slowly beat in remaining sugar. Beat in additional milk, if needed, to make of spreading consistency. Tint with food color, if desired.

CREAMY FROSTING

Steps:

• Whisk milk into flour in small saucepan until smooth. Heat and stir until it boils and thickens. Cool thoroughly.
• Cream butter, sugar and vanilla in bowl until light and fluffy. Add thickened milk. Beat until mixture resembles whipped cream. Makes enough to fill and frost 2 layer cake, about 3 1/2 cups.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING WITH BROWN BUTTER AND BOURBON

Steps:

• Melt 1/2 cup butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir occasionally and cook until the milk solids turn brown and give off a nutty fragrance, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Combine the remaining 1/4 butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl. Pour the browned butter into the mixing bowl and set aside for about three minutes, letting the warm butter soften the cream cheese and cold butter. Scrape the black seeds from the vanilla bean and add them to the bowl. Add the bourbon and mix on low speed until smooth.
• Gradually add the confectioners' sugar and cream, alternating between the two, until the proper consistency is reached. If the frosting is too soft for decorating, refrigerate it for about half an hour before using.

MRS IRVING'S DELICIOUS SHORTBREAD - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Steps:

• You Will Need:.
• large mixing bowl.
• electric mixer.
• measuring cups.
• measuring spoons.
• medium mixing bowl.
• fork.
• extra flour for dusting.
• rolling pin.
• cookie cutters.
• metal spatula.
• cookie sheet.
• extra sugar for sprinkling.
• oven mitts.
• Preheat the oven to 350*.
• In the large mixing bowl, cream the butter with the electric mixer until it is soft, smooth and fluffy.
• Add the icing sugar, a little at a time, and beat until smooth.
• Measure and add the flour, salt, and baking powder to the medium mixing bowl. Mix with the fork.
• Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir until well mixed.
• Dust the rolling pin and a clean place on the counter with the extra flour. Turn the dough onto the floured surface and roll it out into a large circle - about 1/4 inch thick.
• With the cookie cutters, cut the dough into any shapes you like.
• With the metal spatula, lift the shortbreads onto a greased cookie sheet. Place them about 1/2 inch apart. Prick each shortbread twice with a fork and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake the shortbreads for 20 - 25 minutes until they turn light brown around the edges.
• With oven mitts, remove the cookie sheet from the oven. With the metal spatula, immediately lift the shortbreads onto a plate.

LIGHT AND CREAMY VANILLA ICE CREAM - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Steps:

• You Will Need:.
• double boiler.
• measuring spoons.
• measuring cups.
• small saucepan.
• wooden spoon.
• 2 small mixing bowls.
• fork.
• wire strainer.
• electric mixer.
• 2 large mixing bowls.
• rubber spatula.
• metal bowl or pan.
• Put the whipping cream, electric beaters and one of the large mixing bowls in the refrigerator to chill.
• Put about 2 inches of water in the bottom of the double boiler and bring to a boil.
• Put the gelatin and the cold water in the top pot of the double boiler. Let the gelatin soften for 5 minutes away from the stove.
• Meanwhile, pour the milk into the small saucepan and place it over medium low heat. When tiny bubbles form around the edge of the pot, the milk is ready.
• To the gelatin in the top pot of the double boiler add the hot milk, sugar, corn syrup, flour, and salt. Place over the bottom pot containing the boiling water.
• Stir constantly with the wooden spoon until the mixture thickens- about 15 minutes.
• Put the lid on and cook the mixture over boiling water for another 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, separate the egg into the 2 small mixing bowls. Set aside the egg white for later.
• Beat the egg yolk slightly with a fork. When the 10 minutes are up, stir the egg yolk very slowly into the mixture on top of the stove. Cook and stir for 1 more minute.
• Pour the hot ice cream mixture through a wire strainer into the other large mixing bowl.
• When the ice cream mixture has cooled to room temperature, beat it with the electric mixer until it is light and creamy - about 5 minutes.
• In the chilled large mixing bowl whip the cold whipping cream with the electric mixer until it falls in large globs and forms a soft peak.
• Rinse the beaters thoroughly with hot water. Then beat the egg white until it is stiff and glossy but not dry.
• Very gently with the rubber spatula, fold first the whipped cream, then the egg white into the ice cream mixture. Gently stir in the vanilla.
• Spoon the mixture into the metal bowl or pan and place in the freezer. Freeze for about 3 or 4 hours - until firm.

ANNE'S CHOCOLATE FUDGE FROSTING

Steps:

• Put 2 inches of water in the bottom of a double boiler.
• Add the chocolate chips and vegetable shortening to the top of double boiler.
• Allow the chocolate and shortening to melt.
• Stir in the sugar a little at a time.
• Add the milk.
• Remove the top pot from the heat.
• Beat frosting with the electric mixer until it is thick and creamy--about 5 minutes.
• With a metal spatula or knife, spread about 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers and use the rest to cover the top and sided of the cake.

CREAMY BUTTER FROSTING - ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Steps:

• Equipment You Will Need:.
• measuring cups.
• small saucepan.
• measuring spoons.
• medium mixing bowl.
• wooden spoon.
• electric mixer.
• metal spatula.
• Directions:.
• Melt the butter in the small saucepan over low heat.
• Put the melted butter, cream and vanilla into the medium mixing bowl. Mix with the wooden spoon.
• With the electric mixer, beat in the icing sugar, a little at a time. Continue beating until the frosting is thick and creamy - about 5 minutes.
• With the metal spatula, spread about 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers. Use the rest to cover the top and the sides of your cake. If you rinse the metal spatula under hot water from time to time while you are frosting the cake, the frosting will be much easier to spread. (For fun, add 2 or 3 drops - no more - of red food colouring to the frosting to make a pretty pink cake.).