I LOVE butterscotch (perhaps even more than chocolate) and the flavor of the butterscotch morsels is hard to beat, so I thought this would be a good recipe. It is OUTSTANDING and so easy to make! I did a few things a little differently: I used 5-1/2 oz of butterscotch chips since that is half of the 11 oz package. I melted them in a microwave instead of over hot water--30 seconds at a time until they were melted (about 1-1/2 minutes total in my microwave). Then I added the butter and put the mix in the microwave for another 20 seconds and stirred the melted butter in. I didn't have any milk so I used half and half instead and stirred that in with the salt until the mixture was creamy. I then added the powdered sugar with an extra 1/2 cup of since 3 cups made the icing a little too runny for use on the pound cake I was frosting. I used a premade frozen pound cake (thawed) and sliced it in half lengthwise so it had two layers. There is plenty of frosting so the cake could be sliced in thirds for a three layer cake. This butterscotch icing recipe on pound cake is now my favorite cake! BTW, if you add 4 cups of powdered sugar instead of 3, this recipe makes excellent butterscotch fudge!

I made a double batch of this to go with a 3-layer butter pecan cake that I made. I haven't actually cut into the cake yet since it is for my mother's birthday tomorrow, but from combining crumbs from the cake with this frosting, I can tell this is an amazing combination. I added some of the buttered, browned pecans from the cake into this frosting and that goes well. It is so tasty! I will definitely be making this again.