i make a lot of cupcakes, but i only make one frosting

6 tablespoons all purpose flour
2 cups of milk
2 cups of butter (1 pound/ 4 sticks)
2 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

cook the flour and milk together in a sauce pan until it bubbles and thickens. pour it on to a plate and cover it with plastic wrap.

(put the plastic right up against it so it doesn't form a skin. SERIOUSLY!!! cover it. the skin does not simply dissolve away. it makes your icing funky.)

then put it in the fridge while you make the rest of your frosting.


cream the butter and sugar. add the vanilla

when the flour and milk is cool, add it to the butter and whip until the frosting turns light, fluffy and white.

put it in the fridge for 15 minutes. then use all you want.