This peanut butter frosting is light, creamy, and it has just the right amount of sweetness. This recipe is the perfect frosting for brownies and chocolate cake!
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I love the peanut butter and chocolate combination, especially when it comes to brownies or deep, rich chocolate cake. Unfortunately a lot of recipes that I’ve tried for peanut butter frosting were just way too heavy and overly sweet. Consequently I decided to come up with my own recipe by using my favorite cream cheese frosting as a guide. I took out a lot of the heaviness from traditional buttercream recipes by using a little heavy whipping cream rather than all butter. As a result this peanut butter frosting ended up being light, fluffy, and ah-mazingly delicious!
Cook’s Note – Peanut Butter Frosting:
This will recipe make enough peanut butter frosting for an 8-inch layer cake or 24 cupcakes.
Leftover frosting can be
eaten with a spoon
kept in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Or you can freeze it for up to 1 month. Just leave the frosting at room temperature until softened. Then give it a whirl in the mixer to fluff it back up.
Cook’s Tools – Peanut Butter Frosting:
stand mixer OR hand mixer
rubber scraper OR self-scraping paddle attachment(this just might be my favorite kitchen gadget ever!)
piping bag
my favorite large icing tip
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Peanut Butter Frosting
Author: Jillian - a Food, Folks and Fun original!
Recipe type: Dessert
Prep time:
9 mins
Total time:
9 mins
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Ingredients
1 cup salted butter, at room temperature
1 ¼ cups creamy peanut butter
3 cups powdered sugar
½ cup heavy whipping cream
Instructions
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and peanut butter together on medium-high speed for 2-3 minutes, or until light, creamy, and lightened a few shades.
Scrape down sides of bowl, add powdered sugar, and mix until combined.
Add heavy cream and beat on medium-low until combined and smooth. Turn mixer to high and beat for 4 minutes, or until frosting is light and fluffy.
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