Toasted Almond Icing

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV

Adding three minutes to classic seven-minute icing actually means less work.

SERVES 3 cups, enough to frost one 4-layer cake

TIME 30 minutes

Toasted Almond Icing

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The traditional seven-minute icing recipe was a little too sweet and thick for our taste, and it required holding a hand-held mixer longer than was comfortable. So we started by cutting the amount of sugar in our icing recipe. We learned th...

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