Brown Sugar Frosting

Are you tired of buying frosting in a can?

Does the thought of making butter cream frosting again just get your panties in a wad?

Do you poop out at parties?

Are you unpopular?

The answer to all your woes is right here...

No, it's not vitameatavegamin.

It's brown sugar frosting.

Here are your ingredients- brown sugar, butter, vanilla and cream.

You'll need a 2 quart saucepan and a candy thermometer.

 Take a quarter cup of butter.

Two cups of brown sugar.

I don't know why my butter in the background looks fluorescent.

 One cup of unwhipped whipping cream.

On medium heat, stir until you reach a rolling boil.

Or, according to my mother's recipe, find a nice medium head and stir.

I laughed out loud, by myself in my kitchen when I read this.

Get out your handy, dandy candy thermometer (you will need one).

Boil until it reaches 240 degrees or soft ball.

It will look like this for a while.

Be patient.

When it finally reaches soft ball, 

stir in a teaspoon of vanilla.

Get out your mixer and mix until it cools enough to form soft peaks.

Or cool swirly things like this.

Then spread over a devil's food cake.

and enjoy!

Here is the recipe.

Brown Sugar Frosting

2 cups brown sugar

1 cup whipping cream

1/4 cup butter

1 tsp vanilla

In 2 qt. saucepan, heat butter, brown sugar and cream on medium heat. Stir until it reaches a rolling boil. Remove from heat when the candy thermometer reads 240 degrees (soft ball stage). Add vanilla and stir quickly so it does not burn. With a mixer, mix until frosting consistency or until it holds together and peaks form. Frost a cooled devil's food cake quickly. This will frost one 9X13 cake.

Join all the happy, peppy people...

I really always have loved Lucy!