Ingredients
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter flavored crisco or 2
1 sticks (1/4 lb
2/3 cup milk
1 tbsp vanilla
Directions
Mix sugar and Crisco together. Heat milk until hot on finger. (Do not
boil.) Add half of the milk to sugar ~ Crisco mixture and beat 2
minutes. Add rest of milk and beat 8 minutes longer (a total of 10
minutes all together). The beating breaks up the sugar granules to a
whipped cream consistency, but is a butter type.
To make a whipped cream frosting, use white Crisco instead of
butter-flavored. (This is Audrey's (my sister-in-laws recipe.) (I use
these often as I don't always have confectioners sugar on hand.)
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Servings: 4 servings
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