Peanut Butter Icing Recipe
Welcome to month #3 of our Ingredient Challenge! This is the one post each month where I take a break from design and share a recipe. Our monthly ingredient challenge is a recipe exchange, where each recipe has to be original and it has to include that month’s chosen ingredient. This month’s chosen ingredient is peanut butter, my favorite! I actually eat a peanut butter sandwich for lunch several times a week. No jelly, just peanut butter.
I’ve tried several times (before this challenge) to re-create my grandmother’s peanut butter icing recipe. She used to make it and put it on cupcakes. It was the perfect mix of icing and peanut butter. It was so good, I could never eat just one. So when I saw this month’s ingredient was peanut butter, I decided to again give it a try. After several different attempts, over several different days, I came up with a recipe that is pretty close to how I remember hers. It also got the approval of my husband and my younger daughter who also love peanut butter. We go through a lot of peanut butter in this house!
The recipe (found at the bottom of this post) is easy to make, and only involves four ingredients. Milk can be substituted for the heavy cream. You could also dress this up with bits of peanut butter cups on top.
If you missed our previous months recipe challenges, month 1 was cilantro, see those recipes here, and month 2 was apples, see those recipes here. Click the link below to check out what recipes everyone else came up with for peanut butter.
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Peanut Butter Icing Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 7 tbsp heavy cream
Instructions
- Combine butter with peanut butter and whip until fluffy.
- Gradually add the 3 cups of powdered sugar. Next add the heavy cream. You can adjust the consistency with more heavy cream or powdered sugar as needed.
Peanut butter frosting is one of my absolute favorites. It’s so good on just about any cake flavor! Pinning!
Your icing is gorgeous! how do you get it too look so beautiful?! mine always just looks like a clump on top haha. But this sounds divine, definitely trying it soon
That sounds so delicious. I can think of all kinds of cakes and cupcakes I’d like that on.
What a great idea!! This will have to be added to my stack of peanut butter recipes! Definitely looks amazing 🙂
So delicious! I want to reach through the screen and take a bite 🙂 Pinned!
Pretty sure we wouldn’t put this on anything…straight.outta.the.bowl 😉 Great recipe Roxanne!!!
I love peanut butter and this frosting looks perfectly sweet and creamy! 🙂
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Cathy
Oh, those swirls make my mouth water! Thanks for sharing at Thursday Favorite Things, hope to see you next week again! Happy Easter!
This sounds easy enough and looks super yummy! I’m such a fan of (good) peanut butter frosting so this will sure be a recipe that gets used!!!! And I’m with you…..peanut butter sandwich with no jelly 🙂
I saw this and my mouth started watering. One of my favorite memories from my childhood is the cake squares with peanut butter frosting served in the school cafeteria. I know that it had to be something simple but have never made it.
Thank you for sharing.
Yummy Yummy Yummy! Thanks for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop Roxanne. I have featured you on my Tuesday Favorite Things Round Up. Hope to see you again at the Blog Hop again!
Yum!! Looks good!! I love peanut butter! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! Hope to see you tomorrow!! Pinned!!
This looks amazing. I love PB, and I love icing, so I bet this is awesome! I’m totally asking my mother-in-law to make this!
Tif
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This looks so creamy and yummy! I can’t wait to try it on chocolate cupcakes!