Mare's Most Delicious Icing

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup crisco
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup granulated sugar or 1 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup hot milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 beat for a full 10 minutes( very important) the following 3 ingredients: butter or margarine, crisco, granulated sugar (or use 1 cup packed brown sugar for a maple icing).
• 2 heat milk in microwave till very hot (not boiling).
• 3 while beating. add hot milk to sugar and butter mixture very slowly.(i mean about 1/8 of a cup at a time -- all the while beating it well --
• 4 after all of the milk has been beaten in, beat in vanilla extract.
• 5 this is delicious (the brown sugar icing is wonderful with chocolate cake especially good with butter pecan or spice cake).