The "seven-minute frosting" is a type of frosting that can be made with just a few basic ingredients and is commonly used to top cakes, cupcakes, and other desserts. The beauty of this frosting lies in its simplicity, speed, and versatility. With just seven minutes of your time, sugar, water, egg whites, and a pinch of salt, you can create a light, fluffy, and creamy frosting that will elevate any confection. Whether you are a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, this effortless recipe will guide you through the steps to achieve the perfect "seven-minute frosting" that will impress your friends and family.
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PERFECT SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
This cake frosting is named for the length of time it must be beaten in the final stage.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Yield Makes about 1 quart
Number Of Ingredients 3
Steps:
- In a small, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine 3/4 cup sugar, corn syrup, and 4 tablespoons water. Place over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar has dissolved, about 4 minutes. Rub a bit of the mixture between your fingers, making sure any graininess has disappeared. Raise heat, and bring to a boil without stirring. Continue boiling, occasionally washing down the sides of the pan with a pastry brush dipped in cold water to prevent sugar from crystallizing, until a candy thermometer registers 230 degrees, about 5 minutes. (Depending on the humidity, this can take anywhere from 4 to 10 minutes.) Remove the syrup from heat (temperature will keep rising).
- Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer, whisk the egg whites on medium speed until soft peaks form, about 2 1/2 minutes. Gradually add remaining 2 tablespoons sugar. With mixer on medium-low speed, pour syrup in a steady stream down side of bowl (to avoid splattering).
- Beat the frosting on high speed until cool, about seven minutes. It should be thick and shiny. Use immediately.
SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING I
My mother used to make this as a base before making her marshmallow frosting on some of her cakes.
Provided by Carol
Categories Desserts Frostings and Icings White
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Put egg whites, sugar, water and syrup in top of double boiler. Beat until mixed well. Place over rapidly boiling water. Beat constantly with electric beater while it cooks for 7 minutes or until it will stand in peaks when beater is raised. Remove from heat. Add vanilla. Beat. Fills and frosts 2 layer cake, 8 or 9 inch.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 102.9 calories, Carbohydrate 25.7 g, Protein 0.6 g, Sodium 9.8 mg, Sugar 25.3 g
SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
Steps:
- Combine all ingredients except vanilla in top of double boiler.
- Place water in bottom pan of double boiler. Cook over high heat 3-4 minutes or until water boils. Place egg white mixture in top of double boiler over rapidly boiling water (water should not touch bottom of pan); beat at highest speed with hand mixer 7 minutes or until mixture forms stiff peaks. (Do not overcook.) Remove from heat; add vanilla.
- Continue beating 2 minutes or until frosting holds deep swirls.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 30 calories, Fat 0 grams, SaturatedFat grams, Transfat grams, Cholesterol 0 milligrams, Sodium 20 milligrams, Carbohydrate 8 grams, Fiber 0 grams, Sugar grams, Protein
SIMPLE SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
We recommend this frosting for our Coconut-Almond Egg-Shaped Cake.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Yield Makes about 4 cups
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Heat 3/4 cup sugar, the water, andcorn syrup in a medium saucepanover medium heat, stirring until sugardissolves. Increase heat, and bring toa boil. Wash down sides of pan witha wet pastry brush to prevent sugar crystals from forming. Cook until it registers 235 degrees on a candy thermometer.
- Meanwhile, whisk whites with amixer on medium speed until softpeaks form, about 2 1/2 minutes. Addremaining tablespoon sugar; reducespeed to medium-low. Pour sugar syrupinto whites in a slow, steady stream.Increase speed to medium high; beatuntil stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes.Beat in vanilla; use immediately.
SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
This old-school frosting of egg whites and sugar comes together fast to give your cakes and cupcakes piles of fluffy, marshmallow-y swirls.
Provided by Sara Bir
Categories Dessert
Time 15m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Use the frosting: Use the frosting within 30 minutes. As it sits, the frosting becomes too tacky and deflated to work with. If someone comes to the door and you can't use the frosting immediately, drape a warm, damp kitchen towel over the bowl. This can buy you a little time.
- Serve: Cakes with this frosting are best enjoyed the day they are decorated; after about 4 hours, the frosting will look less glamorous and become tacky, with a chalky outer crust. It's still safe and delicious to eat. It's just not very pretty.
- Store cakes uncovered: Store cakes iced with seven-minute frosting uncovered and avoid having plastic wrap come into contact with the frosting-it'll stick to the wrap. If your cake is sliced you can fold plastic wrap or parchment over and press it against the cut part of cake to prevent it from drying out.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 17 kcal, Carbohydrate 4 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Fiber 0 g, Protein 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, Sodium 6 mg, Sugar 4 g, Fat 0 g, UnsaturatedFat 0 g
7-MINUTE FROSTING
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 12m
Yield frosting for 1 layer cake
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- In a stainless steel bowl, combine the egg whites, cold water, sugar, and cream of tartar in the top of a double boiler. Whisk until smooth. Place over boiling water and whisk constantly or beat with a hand mixer until the frosting is stiff and holds peaks, about 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and whisk in the vanilla. Let cool, whisking often.
SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Time 25m
Yield about 6 cups
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Bring a few inches of water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk the egg whites, sugar, water, corn syrup, vanilla, cream of tartar and salt in a large heatproof glass bowl. Set the bowl on top of the pan (do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water). Beat with a hand mixer on low speed until the sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to thicken, 1 to 2 minutes. (If any sugar crystals form on the side of the bowl, brush them down with a wet pastry brush.) Increase the speed to medium high and beat until stiff glossy peaks form, about 7 minutes.
- Remove the bowl from the pan and beat until the frosting cools slightly, about 30 seconds. Use while still slightly warm -- the frosting will firm up and form a hard shell when it cools. Do not refrigerate the frosted cake or the frosting may weep.
FLUFFY SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING
This frosting takes approximately seven minutes to make.
Provided by obertolas
Categories Desserts Frostings and Icings White
Time 17m
Yield 32
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Combine sugar, water, egg whites, salt, corn syrup, and vanilla in the top of a double boiler. Beat all ingredients about one minute before placing bowl or pan over the heat.
- Place over rapidly boiling water; beat at high speed until the mixture forms soft peaks. (This may take longer than 7 minutes).
- Transfer frosting mixture to large bowl; beat until the mixture is thick and cool enough to spread.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 39.5 calories, Carbohydrate 9.9 g, Protein 0.2 g, Sodium 40.3 mg, Sugar 9.6 g
BASIC SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING
This is a diet buster, it's wickedly delicious and it is so easy and quick. It's from my all time favorite cookbook Fanny Farmer's, my copy was printed in 1965 and it's still the best basic cookbook I've come across.
Provided by Pierre Dance
Categories Dessert
Time 7m
Yield 1 cake
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Mate a stainless steel mixing bowl and a large sauce pan. You're making a double boiler.
- Put a few inches of water in the pan and bring to a boil without the mixing bowl on top.
- In the bowl mix all of the ingredients except flavor options with a hand mixer.
- Place the bowl on the boiling pan and mix 'til it's thick enough to stand, about 4 min.
- Remove the bowl from the pan and mix 'til it's thick enough to spread.
- Flavors in the order of my favorites; Vanilla; Mix 1/2 tsp into the finished frosting.
- Lemon; Subtitute 2 TBS Lemon juice for water and mix 1/2 tsp Lemon Zest into the finished Frosting.
- Orange; Same as lemon but use Orange.
- Coconut; Mix 1/4 cup freshly grated coconut into the finished frosting, spread on the cake and sprinkle the top with a bit more coconut.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 598.6, Fat 0.1, Sodium 210.6, Carbohydrate 150.4, Sugar 150.1, Protein 3.6
SEVEN MINUTE FROSTING
Provided by Tracey Seaman
Categories Mixer Egg Dessert Quick & Easy Fat Free Kidney Friendly Vegetarian Pescatarian Dairy Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes about 1 quart
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- In large metal bowl, whisk together 1/3 cup water, sugar, egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt. Set bowl over pan of barely simmering water and mix with handheld electric mixer at low speed. Gradually increase speed to high, beating until mixture holds stiff peaks, about 5 minutes.
- Transfer bowl from pan to folded kitchen towel on counter and continue beating until mixture is cool and billowy, about 2 minutes more. Beat in vanilla. (Frosting can be made 4 hours ahead and chilled, covered.)
SEVEN-MINUTE FROSTING
Make and share this Seven-Minute Frosting recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Marg CaymanDesigns
Categories Dessert
Time 20m
Yield 4 cups
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Combine the sugar, cream of tartar, salt, egg whites, and water in a large mixing bowl or double boiler of at least a 2-quart capacity.
- Set over simmering, not boiling, water over moderate heat.
- Beat with a hand electric mixer at high speed for about 5 to 7 minutes, until the frosting stands in definite peaks when the beater is lifted.
- Remove from the water and continue beating for several minutes, until the frosting has cooled and no longer feels hot to your finger, and stands in soft, smooth, billowy peaks.
- Beat in the vanilla.
- You will have enough to generously fill and frost an 8 or 9 inch two-layer cake or a 9 or 10 inch tube cake.
Tips:
- Use unsalted butter for the best flavor.
- Make sure the butter is softened to room temperature before creaming it with the sugar.
- If you don't have time to wait for the butter to soften, you can microwave it on low power for a few seconds at a time, stirring in between, until it is softened.
- Use a hand mixer or stand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together until they are light and fluffy.
- Add the milk and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
- Finally, add the powdered sugar and mix until the frosting is smooth and creamy.
- If the frosting is too thick, add a little more milk. If the frosting is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar.
- Use the frosting immediately or store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Conclusion:
This simple 7-minute frosting is the perfect way to add a delicious and creamy touch to your favorite cakes, cupcakes, and cookies. It is quick and easy to make, and it can be customized to your liking by adding different flavors or colors. So next time you need a frosting, give this recipe a try!
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