Thermomix - Vanilla Frosting

After a brief Google I found a frosting recipe for the Thermomix on Steph Berg's site, reproduced from a 2009 Thermomix Calendar.  It looks a lot like a recipe I've seen before that produces a lovely, buttery but not too sweet, icing for cakes.  I made it up and it tasted even better!

I've amended it slightly as I prefer to do things in the order below.

Ingredients:

35g Plain Flour

200g whole milk

150g sugar

200g unsalted butter

35g natural vanilla extract

Method:

Place sugar in TM bowl and mill for 15 seconds on speed 9.  Set aside and clean bowl.

Place flour and milk into TM bowl and blend for 5 seconds on speed 6.

Cook for 15min at 80deg on speed 4

Pour into bowl , cover with plastic wrap, pushing plastic down onto surface of mixture to ensure as little air contact as possible.

Allow to cool completely and rinse bowl.  Ensure bowl is cool before proceeding to next step.

Place milled sugar and butter in TM bowl and chop for 5-10 seconds on speed 7.

Insert Butterfly and aerate butter and sugar for 1-2 minutes on speed 3 with MC off to allow air in bowl, scraping down sides as needed.

Add Vanilla and beat 6 seconds on speed 4.

Add cooked milk mixture and continue to beat for around 2-3 minutes on speed 3 until very smooth and white.

Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes (exactly) then use immediately

My only problem was trying to add colouring at the end.  If I'd used powdered colour it would have been fine, or added the colour when adding the vanilla, but as it was the liquid colour beaded on the mixture and was fiddly to incorporate - lots of taking the lid off and scraping the sides.

The cupcakes I made with this frosting