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October 8, 2021

Brown Sugar Icing

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Bowl of brown sugar icing

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 spread over a pumpkin bar cookie
The brown sugar icing spread on cooled pumpkin bars
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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

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  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. Now, add the confectioners sugar and mix with a whisk or spoon until completely combined.
  3. Pour out onto a cooled cake, brownies or pumpkin bars and spread with a knife.

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