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This is the frosting I used on my daughter's birthday cupcakes this year. It is brown butter cream cheese frosting and I am told it was quite good, as witnessed in the photo below. (There being dairy in it I did not taste it myself. And it always makes me nervous to serve something I haven't sampled...) Working with it, however, was super rewarding and it's off white cream color, complete with brown butter flecks, looked quite lovely with the purple sugar hearts I used on top the cupcakes. Which you can see for yourself if you look back at the previous post.

The recipe for the frosting is below. A word of caution though, the butter browns very fast. Just after I had put it in a small pan on the stove my daughter came into the kitchen liberally smeared with chapstick and by the time I got her wiped up my butter was in serious jeopardy of crossing over from beautifully amber brown to burnt black. So in other words...watch it. Like a hawk. Like a hawk with binoculars.


http://www.bigredkitchen.com/2008/11/browned-butter-cream-cheese-frosting/