Buttercream Frosting - Back from Oblivion

C&H Sugar has a recipe for buttercream frosting on the box, and on their website.  DON'T BE FOOLED! It's not the original recipe that's been used millions of times over the last forty years. 

Apparently, the folks at C&H thought it was too difficult for us to cut a stick of butter into thirds, so they changed the recipe to use an entire stick, which is way too much.  It's greasier and just doesn't taste right.

Thanks to the internet, the original recipe lives on!  And I'll repeat it here just to be sure.

Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients

1 lb. box (approx. 3 ¾ cups) Powdered Sugar

⅓  cup (⅔  stick)  butter, softened

¼ tsp salt

¼ cup milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

In large bowl with electric mixer at low speed, combine sugar, butter, milk and vanilla. Beat at medium speed 1 to 2 minutes until creamy. If needed, add more milk until frosting is spreading consistency.

Frosts a 2-layer cake, a 13x9x2 sheet cake, or 24 cupcakes.

A few drops of food coloring brighten this up.   Sprinkles are good.   You can add cocoa powder to make chocolate, too.

This is so easy, there's no reason to use frosting from a can!