Frosting with flour and milk

Heritage Frosting! This creamy, not-too-sweet frosting starts with a cooked flour and milk mixture! Such a great alternative to traditional buttercream!

There's another kind of frosting that's great for decorating, but it isn't mentioned much. It goes by many names, but the most common is "Ermine Frosting."

This Heritage Frosting recipe is creamy & not overly sweet. It starts with a cooked flour and milk and is a great alternative to traditional buttercream!

This classic Ermine frosting uses flour and milk roux as a base, which is then whipped with butter until you get a light and delicious frosting.

Ermine Frosting, also known as milk frosting, flour buttercream, or $300 frosting is a silky smooth frosting made from a cooked milk and flour mixture, sugar, and butter. It is perfectly sweet!

Ermine Frosting (also known as flour buttercream or heritage frosting) is an easy and delicious buttercream made with flour, sugar, milk, and butter.

An old-school, not-so-sweet frosting perfect for your next red velvet cake.

Ermine frosting made from boiled milk, flour, sugar and vanilla whipped into butter. It's light, fluffy and very much like whipped cream in texture.

This whipped icing is the one my grandmother always used for her richest, most decadent cakes because it's light, creamy and not overly sweet. Ermine frosting is easily spreadable and tastes like the best whipped cream frosting you've ever had (but there's no cream in it).

Learn how to make a vanilla icing no powdered sugar recipe using this cooked flour method for silky smooth buttercream frosting.