Cooking disaster-Request immediate assistance. My buttercream is not suitable for frosting.
→[More:]So it's your basic buttercream: you whisk a cup of sugar and some extract in four eggs over simmering water until thin and foamy (and 140 degrees by the instant-read). Beat until cool and add i pound of butter, whipping until smooth.
But I haven't got an instant-read and I appear to have overcooked the eggs, so instead of butter cream frosting, I have a pound of almond-flavored butter the texture of butter-substitute-spread-in-a-tub sitting in a small amount of unidentifiable liquid.
No disaster for the cake (I'll whip up some marscapone with butter and frost that way), but what can I do with this pound of butter? Suggestions other than "eat it up, yum!" highly welcome.