Favorite White Frosting

It is time to pass on the family tradition of a 4-layer birthday cake with crazy colored layers and delicious homemade frosting.  My gramma always made this for her kids, my parents made it for us, and I am making it for my kids.  This is favorite white frosting, but we used pink food coloring to make it pink this time - the food coloring takes a bit of work to mix in due to the shortening, so use caution.

Favorite White Frosting (standard cake recipe)

3 T flour
1 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
1 stick butter - softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Heat milk and flour in a saucepan until thick - it should resemble runny pudding, cool.  Add remaining ingredients and beat together until the texture is like whipped cream.

Favorite White Frosting (doubled recipe for 4-layer cake)

6 T flour
2 cup milk
1 cup shortening
2 stick butter - softened
2 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla