Brown Sugar Icing

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Brown sugar icing has a taste kind of like butterscotch, and it flows nicely onto your cookies, coffee cakes, breads, and scones, or whatever else you like it on. Many fall recipes call for a glaze and this one always come to mind.

This icing takes minutes to make and you need no mixer, just a saucepan and a whisk. Most of the time is waiting for each step to be complete. You just let most of the ingredients melt in a pan, then sit for a few minutes before adding the confectioner's sugar. Then, let it sit for a few minutes to cool slightly before spreading or drizzling it on your cakes or cookies.

Ingredients for brown sugar icing:

Butter
Brown sugar
Milk
Half & half
Confectioners sugar

Making the brown sugar icing:

In a small saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, milk and half & half.

Ingredients melting in a pan for brown sugar icing — Mixing brown sugar, butter, milk, and half & half, really good

Let the mixture come to a boil, then take off of the burner and let sit for about 7 minutes.

A pan with the brown sugar icing melting to a boil — Mixture boiling

Now is the time to add the confectioners to the mix and stir it all together with a whisk or spoon.

Confectioners sugar added to the brown sugar ingredients that already have been melted. — Add the confectioners sugar

Let the mixture cool for about 12 minutes or to mostly cool, then spread on cookies, , cakes, bread or our Pumpkin Bars.

Brown Sugar Icing

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Author: ourfantasticrecipes
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 7 minutes
Total Time: 25 mins.
Yield: 1 ⅓ cups 1x
Category: icing

Ingredients

Scale

6 Tablespoons butter
¾ cups plus 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
2 Tablespoons whole milk
1 Tablespoon half & half
1 ¾ cups confectioners sugar (sifted)

Instructions

In a saucepan, add butter, brown sugar, whole milk, and half & half and bring mixture to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Let the mixture sit for 7 more minutes.
Now, add the confectioners sugar and mix with a whisk or spoon until completely combined.
Pour out onto a cooled cake, brownies or pumpkin bars and spread with a knife.