A Happy First Birthday!

We made it through the year and now my baby is officially one. We celebrated with our family and I actually made some pretty amazing cupcakes thanks to my sisters frosting recipe.

Frosting and I have a sad history. When Hannah my oldest turned one all I wanted to do was make her the best cake a baby could have and so I tried and failed  miserably to the point when my husband came home and found me crying over the frosting he took me to Wal-Mart to buy a can of frosting, which as we are picking it out he proceeds to tell me that he doesn't understand why I tried to make frosting in the first place when it would have just been better to buy some or better yet just buy a cake. I was 5 months pregnant with number two and very emotional so here we are down the baking isle and I am still crying about the frosting and ruining two cakes already. All I wanted was the perfect homemade cake for my babies first birthday. People gave us weird looks and some gave my husband very dirty looks as they passed us. It was one of things that I remember now with each of my kids first birthdays and am glad to say that now I can make frosting and I don't ruin the birthday cakes any more. :)

Bethany's Frosting:
6TB flour
1 cup of milk

Mix in a sauce pan over med heat until thick like brownie batter.
Let cool to room temp.

1 cup real butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp flavoring (I did 1/2 vanilla and 1/2 almond)

Cream together butter and sugar add flavoring and any coloring
add flour mixture to butter mixture and beat until creamy about 5-10 min.
check frosting between fingers to make sure sugar is dissolved.
Frosts about 24 cupcakes

This frosting was great not too sweet I hate it when the frosting is overly sweet and this one is super easy and yummy and it was great to pipe with I always have troubles getting my frosting to pipe well so another plus for this recipe ;)

Ella loved her cake!