Have you ever made Boiled Frosting?
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
United States
March 3, 2007 10:37am CST
Today is my DIL birthday. In her honor I plan to make a chocolate cake. I soon came to the realization that I do not have confectioners sugar to make the frosting with. Not a problem for me. I love to top a cake with boiled frosting. All it takes is a few ingredients, a few minutes on the stove and you have a delicious alternative to confectioner sugar based frostings or store bought.
Here is the easy recipe:
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons water
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix sugar, corn syrup and water in saucepan. Cover and heat to rolling boil over medium heat. Uncover and goil to 242 degrees or to firm ball stage. In the meantime, beat egg whites in bowl until soft peaks form. Pour hot syrup slowly into egg whites, beat constantly on medium speed, add vanilla and beat on high speed until stiff peaks form.
This will frost a 13x9 inch cake or 2 layers.
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Have not made this and now will have to try it. Have a few of these recipes and it is not hard at all. Thanks for sharing this one. What is DIL? Glad you are honoring another. You have a sweet weekend with the chocolate thing and this cake to share. Hope it cheers you up!!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
4 Mar 07
You can also make it chocolate flavored by folding in 1/4 cup sifted cocoa powder.
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
3 Mar 07
I've heard of boiled frosting, but never seen it made or how it was made. I have a problem with most cakes and frostings because of the corn starch in them. They add corn starch to baking powder and to powdered sugar. I do try to stay away from some corn syrup for fear of there being some corn protien in it, but i eat candy with it so I don't know why I worry so much!
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@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Can you believe that I have never made frosting from scratch? I always keep a few cans of frosting here for when I make a cake. I have made cakes and brownies from scratch, but never the frosting. I'll copy this and give it a try!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Frosting is so easy to make Laurie...give it a try!
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@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I printed out the recipe and will try it. It sounds easy. I am trying to get more into cooking and baking lately. It's been sort of a "hobby" while I've been out of work!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I love to challenge myself. My next venture will be an angel food cake.
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I made this icing many times when my kids were little. I made many things from scratch back then. I am coming around to doing it again.
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@BarBaraPrz (45584)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
3 Mar 07
I remember helping my older sister make this kind of frosting when we were kids -- she did the cooking part, I was the muscle behind the manual egg beater... I remember it as being very rich but don't remember making a chocolate version. I guess you'd have to add cocoa, but how much?
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
4 Mar 07
You sift 1/4 cup of cocoa and fold it into the batter.
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@rusty2rusty (6751)
• Defiance, Ohio
4 Mar 07
Oh, I have never boiled frosting before. But thanks to you I will get to try it. You are so resourceful. I must now go add this recipe to my collection for later use.
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@brendalee (6082)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I got all excited about this recipe when I first read it but then I realized I don't have any corn sryup either.lol. But its still good to know. T%hanks.
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@stailgate (2363)
• United States
4 Mar 07
I have never made homemade frosting. I usually just buy it. Betty crocker is my favorite of all time, the whipped kind. Yum!!! Thank for the recipe though, maybe I will try making it home made sometime!!! It don't sound too hard.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Oh my goodness. Are you kidding? I am sitting here dumbfounded thinking about all the times I have made a special trip to the store to get a can of icing! It is that easy to make an icing? Geeze I feel dumb. Well hats off to you 'elusive'...I have copied and saved this post for future use! I will remember you fondly when I use the recipe and laugh about not having to run to the store!
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@cjsmom (1423)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Oh, WOW, Butter...Didn't even know you could make frosting like that; am definitely going to have to try it one of these days. CJ would probably love to help and we could make it together for his birthday cake in April. Thank you so much for posting that.
@bigpinkmomma (449)
• Canada
4 Mar 07
Oh, you sound like a wonderful and thoughtful mother-in-law making a cake from scratch for your daughter-in-law. I love chocolate cake . I have made boiled frosting only once and that was many years ago . I thought it was okay , but it tends to separate if kept too long . I have often thought of making it at other times , but my daughter said she didn't like the sound of it , so I just go with the regular frosting .Happy Birthday by the way to your daughter-in-law !
@Sweetpeas (738)
• Australia
4 Mar 07
Ooooh see im hopeles at making cakes lol. But im sure I could buy one and put your icing recipe to use, that way it will look like i made lol ;). Thanks for sharing that with us!
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
3 Mar 07
Thanks for a handy tip. I'd never heard of boiled icing before.
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@kathy77 (7486)
• Australia
3 Mar 07
Oh this is great what you have written in your discussion and I would like to thank you it is very hard when you do not have confectionery sugar and so this one will come in handy and I shall be sending this recipe to my daughter so that when she is out of confectionary sugar she can make her icing on her cake with the help of your recipe.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
4 Mar 07
Do you want me to put on more weight??
I love this icing/cakey sort of recipes. It is my daughters and my husbands birthday coming up soon, and I can try this.
Thanks.
@samtaylorskykierajen (7977)
• Canada
3 Mar 07
I love boiled frosting and make it whenever I get energetic and have always just used regular white sugar , the recipee you have there looks like the same one I always use and it has always worked out for me . And that is all my aunt ever used also and it never flopped for her either .
Best of luck !!
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@celestialceece (260)
• United States
4 Mar 07
Happy Birthday Bev (my mother's DIL hahaa). Did you make that chocolate cake or not mom? I think we ate brownies at dinner tonight instead, oh well! They were just as delicious!
I'll try this recipe out, when you make it!
