Caramel icing #1
1 Servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
2½ | cup | Sugar |
1 | Egg; slightly beaten | |
1 | Stick butter | |
¾ | cup | Evaporated milk |
1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Heat milk and 2 cups sugar with butter. Cool slightly and add beaten egg.
Melt ½ cup sugar in iron skillet slowly until brown and runny. Turn heat to medium on first mixture; add browned sugar and cook 10 minutes. Remove from heat; cool slightly and add vanilla. Beat to desired consistency for spreading over cake, adding a bit of cream if mixture becomes too thick.
MRS NELL LEWIS
MARVELL, AR
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .