Rum Hard Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1

    cup
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Glorious American Food

By Christopher Idone

Published 1985

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Ingredients

  • ½ pound unsalted butter at room temperature
  • ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 2

Method

With an electric mixer, cream the butter until fluffy.

Gradually add the sugar and cream together with the butter.

Gradually add the rum or brandy.

Scrape the butter onto a sheet of plastic wrap.

Roll the plastic wrap around the butter into a log that is about 1½ inches in diameter.

Chill until hardened.

Remove the butter about 20 minutes before s