How to Make Frosting

This article will teach all you desert lovers out there the perfect way of making different kinds of frosting. First of all let us know about the method of making the frosting for that unique homemade cake that we all find hard to resist. Frosting can make your cake look like it has just been bought from a professional baker. The things that are required for How to Make Frosting How to Make Frosting making the frosting are as follows:

4 oz. butter (softened)
1 lb powdered sugar
2-4 tbsp of milk
2 tsp vanilla
½ tsp kosher salt

The method of making the traditional vanilla flavored frosting is as given below in the step by step guide:

Take the bowl of your mixer and put in it the softened butter. Attach the whisk or the beaters to the mixers and beat the butter at medium to high speed. Continue beating the butter until it becomes light and fluffy. Make sure that you beat it for about 5 minutes.
Take another bowl and mix in it the vanilla flavoring and salt. Lower the speed of the mixer and add this vanilla flavoring with salt to the bowl containing butter. Whip the contents together until it becomes light and fluffy.
Now again turn the mixer to low speed and add the sugar very slowly. Let each addition moisten down before adding another. Keep on doing this process till you have added all the sugar to the mixture.
Take the speed of the mixer to medium and add the milk. Take care that you add 1 tsp at one time. This process has to be continued till you have added 2 tbsp of milk.
Now raise the speed of the mixer to high and whip the frosting again. Incase the frosting appears too thick then you can add 1 tsp of milk to it till it reaches the exact consistency. Your homemade frosting is ready!

After having known the method of preparing the basic frosting at home, we can now turn our attention towards the preparation method of pecan coconut frosting. This particular frosting can taste great on any cake. It tastes sweet and is also thick in texture. The things How to Make Frosting1 How to Make Frosting that are required for the purpose are as follows:

A 12 ounce can of evaporated milk.
1 ¾ cups of white sugar
1 tsp of corn starch
¾ cup butter
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
4 egg yolks
8 ounce pack of flaked coconut
1 ½ cups of finely chopped pecans

The method is as given below:

Take a cookie sheet and place on it the coconut and pecans. Now toast them in the oven for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees temperature.
Take a large saucepan and combine in it milk, sugar, butter, egg yolks, corn starch and vanilla extract. Cook this mixture on medium heat for 20 minutes. Make sure that its color is golden brown while you remove it from the heat.
Add the coconuts and pecans into the mixture and allow it to cool off at room temperature.