Recipe: Quick Caramel Frosting

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Quick Caramel Frosting
From: Jacques Lorrain
Subject: Quick Caramel Frosting
Newsgroup: rec.food.recipes
Date: 4-4-97

Yield: frosting for 13x9-inch cake

1/3 cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/8 tsp. salt
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Melt butter in saucepan; add brown sugar and cook over low heat 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add salt and milk and continue stirring until mixture comes to a boil. Boil 3 minutes; remove from heat and cool. Add vanilla; blend well. Gradually beat in the confectioners' sugar and continue beating until mixture is smooth and spreading consistency.