This Easy Peanut Butter Frosting can be whipped up in less than five minutes, and it only needs four ingredients! Plus, it tastes so rich and peanut buttery you will be looking for excuses to slather this on baked goods!
Easy Peanut Butter Frosting
This easy peanut butter frosting is so addicting it warrants a post just to highlight its silky and creamy peanut butteryness! This sweet frosting can be whipped up in less than five minutes, and it only needs four ingredients! How easy is that? Plus, it tastes so rich and peanut buttery you will be looking for excuses to slather this on baked goods! ‘Hump Day Celebration Cakes’ anyone? Or ‘I Finally Cleaned the House Cupcakes’? Whatever your excuse, it will be worth it when you take one bite!
How to Make Peanut Butter Frosting
Making this Easy Peanut Butter Frosting isn’t hard. Otherwise, I would be lying to call it easy! However, there are a few tips I picked up on how to get great results your first try:
Whipping the frosting with a hand mixer is a great way to lighten the frosting; however, it can also begin to break apart into a gritty cream. If this happens, microwave the frosting briefly (30 secs) and stir it to return it back to its previous creaminess.
Heavy cream will make the frosting more rich and creamy, however since most people don’t keep heavy cream on hand, milk is a perfectly fine substitution. You could skip the cream if you wanted a simple 3 ingredient peanut butter frosting, but I wouldn't.
Use real butter, do not substitute margarine or ‘buttery spreads’. The frosting may turn oily and the consistency will be off.
Ways to Use Peanut Butter Frosting
This frosting is ideal to top brownies, cupcakes, or even to create a decadent cookie.
If you are wanting to create beautiful designs for topping desserts, or just on your husband’s face while he sleeps, purchase an inexpensive piping kit. This frosting is perfectly suited for piping!
Easy Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons Heavy Cream or as needed
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Using a hand mixer, mix butter and peanut butter until combined.
- Gradually add confectioners' sugar and continue to mix.
- Slowly add in milk to prevent mixture from getting overly thick.
- Mix up to three minutes to lighten the frosting as desired.
Notes
Nutritional Information
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Karrie
Can you use half in half instead of the heavy cream or would you recommend milk in place of heavy cream?
A
Can you make without a hand mixer?
Fox Valley Foodie
Yes, absolutely.
Kate Ruggles
Do you use sweetened Peanut butter or all natural unsweet?
Fox Valley Foodie
Sweetened typically.
Juli
Best ever peanut butter frosting! My 9 year old daughter used this recipe and it was very easy.
Tina
Very good but does need the xtra heavy creme!
Colleen
Yes! Oh my goodness, yes! Such a tasty and easy peanut butter frosting. I've made it twice now and I love it on top of a chocolate cake or cupcake. Because Peanut Butter + Chocolate = Heaven
Jerri marie
Hi, so I made the what I thought was frosting for my grandson's cake decided to dump all ingredients in at the same time was like cookie dough, so instead of using it for frosting I added some ameretto liquor and melted chocolate poured it over the balls I made and what an amazing peanut butter ameretto balls omg my coworkers will love them.
Linda Hewitt
I and my family just love peanut butter icing, and I use it on everything. But the way you make it, it is so much easier. Thanks so much for your recipe.
Erin @ Thanks for Cookin'!
This frosting looks crazy good...but I have a question... What are "Finally cleaned the house cupcakes"? Those must be some mythical magic treats. I might try them instead of vacuuming today ? haha
Fox Valley Foodie
They are way better than vacuuming!
Catherine Gipson
It didn’t turn out, was greasy looking. No matter what i did
Fox Valley Foodie
Hmm, that's interesting. Did you use an all-natural peanut butter or mix by hand instead?
Terry Pattersonson
Can you use regular sugar
Fox Valley Foodie
I would not.