Butterscotch Filling

This is a filling my aunt would use on cakes.  She would use it for the filling between two layers of a layered cake.  Or over a 9x13 cake and then covered with white mountain frosting. I think I will try this someday as a filling in a cupcake.

Butterscotch Filling

Ingredients

1 cup Brown sugar, firmly packed
3 Tbsp flour
1 cup flour
2 egg yolks, slightly beaten
2 Tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)

Directions

Combine sugar and flour in saucepan.  Gradually stir in milk.  Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils.  Boil one minute.  Stir a small amount into egg yolks, before stirring yolks in mixture.  Boil one minute more.

Remove from heat and blend in butter and vanilla.  Cool.

Spread filling on cake and sprinkle with nuts.

A great frosting to put over this filling is white mountain frosting.