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Caramel frosting

A sweet covering for a cake, the kind of frosting children love.

Ingredients

1⁄4 cup cream (dweet cream or half & half)
1 tablespoon butter
6 tablespoons sugar (brown sugar)
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar (confectioners' sugar or icing sugar)

Instructions

Mix cream, butter, brown sugar and salt and place over low heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Do not let boil!

Remove from heat. Stir in confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Stir until cool enough to spread.

Yield
1 batch
Preparation time
10 minutes
Cooking time
5 minutes
Total time
15 minutes

Notes

This recipe should yield enough frosting for a 9 inch cake.