Burnt Butter Frosting

Name: Burnt Butter Frosting
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 11 min
Yield: 1 frosting for one 9x13 inch cake
Ingredients: ½ cup butter; 4 cup confectioners' sugar; 4 tablespoon milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

49 Ratings
45 Reviews
2 Photos

This unusual frosting recipe is made with burnt butter! It is excellent on yellow cakes, and I always get rave reviews. Do not substitute margarine for butter in this recipe!

By Cheryl

prep:

5 mins

cook:

6 mins

total:

11 mins

Servings:

Max Servings:

Nutrition Info

Ingredients

½ cup butter
4 cup confectioners' sugar
4 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Step 1

Place the butter in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring constantly, until the butter is a nice tan color. If it gets dark brown or black you have allowed it to burn too long. When butter has been "burned" remove the saucepan from the heat.

Ads will not print with your recipe
Step 2

Slowly mix in confectioners' sugar and vanilla. Beat on high speed of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the milk a tablespoon at a time until desired spreading consistency is achieved. Use frosting immediately, as this frosting will set up quickly.

Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

227.5 calories; 0.24 g protein; 40.12 g carbohydrates; 7.88 g fat; 20.84 mg cholesterol; 56.94 mg sodium.Full Nutrition

Reviews (45)

Read All Reviews

Most helpful positive review

Tanya Belt

08/05/2007

SO GREAT! My Sister in law made cookies recently frosted with a similar recipe and only stated it wa "Brown butter frosting." This was exactly it! I used it to frost butterscotch cookies---fabulous!

Helpful

(14)

Most helpful critical review

Anonymous

07/19/2014

Worst frosting I ever made & I have been baking for 35 years. What a waste of ingredients.

49 Ratings

5 30
4 10
3 6
2 2
1 1

Reviews: Most Helpful

Most Helpful Most Positive Least Positive Newest

Michelle Ramey

04/06/2008

I was glad to find this recipe as I had accidently burnt some butter and didn't know what to do with it. I made Blonde Brownies from this site and frosted them with this. I love the flavor of the burnt butter frosting- I've never had it before!

(13)

Lisa

05/31/2003

What more can I say than "wow". It had a very interesting flavor for sure and although nobody really seemed to "love" it every drop of the icing was licked out of the bowl and eaten off of the cake! Addicting!

(10)

12/14/2004

This is the best tasting frosting ever! The name is mis-leading the butter isn't burnt but heated just enough to give it a nutty flavor. I used this to frost all my christmas cookies last year (except the white santa b/c this frosting is yellow) and everyone raved about the flavor.

(7)

MINDIEOLSEN

06/04/2008

Thanks for this recipe! My grandmother use to make this all the time on her spice cake or carrot cake. I forgot about it until I saw this recipe. Love the flavor!

(6)

Teresa Allred Hughes

06/07/2006

I love this "burnt" flavor of frosting. I tasted it at a friends birthday and she said she just throws things together and didn't really have a recipe so I came to allrecipes to find one and wahlah. I tried it on a birthday cake with my family and we loved it. It is pretty sweet so just put a thin layer on the cake. Very Yummy!

alytholen

06/11/2008

I personally loved it! Very interesting and I couldn't eat it alone it was too rich but on top of a fudge brownie it would be great. My husband said it was too buttery but I give it 5 stars for uniqueness?!

Junebug's Mom

10/13/2008

I have had burnt butter frosting before however; this wasn't what I expected. It was gritty and tasted like pure sugar. I believe the problem was the recipe was written down and I used granulated sugar vs. powdered sugar. HEEELLLLOOO! I will try again this weekend and anticipate much better results.:-) I tried this again and the texture was better but still not exactly what I was looking for. However it was still good on my carrot cake!

(5)

sweetpotato

Very different but very good too! It's one of those recipes that just happens to taste ten times better than it sounds )i.e. "burnt butter!?!?" but really -- it's great!:)

More Reviews