Flour Frosting: The Not-Too-Sweet Buttercream

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? [Click here]( Flour Frosting (a.k.a. Ermine Frosting) Ermine frosting is an old-school buttercream made with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and milk (okay, six ingredients, if you count salt and vanilla). It feels as light and silky as whipped cream, but it's far more stable. It's also an easy, eggless alternative to European buttercreams, like [Swiss]( and [Italian](, but it's substantially less sweet than [American buttercream](. [Read More →]( The Kitchen Essential Balloon Whisk Use a whisk to mix the flour and milk until smooth, then boil them together to ensure the flour is fully cooked and eliminate its starchy flavor to form a thick, roux-like paste. [Shop Now]( Cakes Ready for Frosting [Classic Vanilla Butter Cake]( [BraveTart's Devil's Food Cake]( [Double-Strawberry Cake]( [Brown Butter Carrot Cake]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Pinterest]( Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](