Miracle Cream Cheese Frosting

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2010

This old-time recipe miraculously transforms as you beat it, but it needed a little modern-day help.

SERVES Makes about 4 cups (enough for two 9-inch cake layers)

TIME 40 minutes, plus 2 hours cooling and 1 hour resting

Miracle Cream Cheese Frosting

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our approach to old-fashioned boiled milk cream cheese frosting was unconventional, but the result was fluffy, flavorful icing the likes of which we’d never tasted. We started by heating and stirring flour and milk into a thick paste, beati...

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