Peanut Butter Frosting

This peanut butter frosting recipe is perfect for peanut butter lovers and used for topping your favorite chocolate cake, cupcakes, fudge brownies or cookies.

The Best Homemade Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe

If you are a peanut butter lover, you will really like this frosting. You can whip it up in just a few minutes and use it to top of your favorite dessert. Of course, the best pairing in my opinion is on top of all things chocolate, but it goes great with all sorts of dessert flavors.

Homemade frosting is awesome because it’s usually very easy to make and can be used to make a boring boxed cake mix come to life. Our Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe is another one that I just love so much. Frosting is so simple to make at home and tastes so much better than store-bought frostings.

Ingredients You’ll Need

Most, if not all, of these ingredients are things you’ve probably got in your pantry right now. Just five simple things is all you need. Full amounts are in the recipe box below.

• Creamy Peanut Butter – Feel free to use whatever brand or kind of peanut butter you love the best, including natural peanut butter.
• Unsalted Butter – It’s important you don’t grab salted butter because we are adding salt in ourselves.
• Vanilla – This gives a lot of the flavor so always try to use real vanilla and not imitation.
• Salt – Just half a teaspoon.
• Milk – 2% or whole milk.
• Powdered Sugar – I always like to swift the powdered sugar to make sure there aren’t any clumps, but this is totally optional.

How To Make Peanut Butter Frosting

1. Using a stand or hand mixer, beat the butter and peanut butter together. (Make sure your butter is soft first.)
2. Add in just half the powdered sugar, the vanilla, salt and milk and mix again.
3. Include the rest of the powdered sugar until the frosting is creamy. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl to incorporate all the ingredients.

This will make enough frosting for about 12-24 cupcakes (depending on their size and how much frosting you use per cupcake) or two round 9-inch cakes including in between layers. Super easy, right?

Favorite Ways To Use Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting

With simple ingredients and a super easy recipe, I think you’ll find yourself making this frosting over and over for birthday cakes and sweet treats. Here are a few great options to top with this creamy peanut butter frosting.

• Chocolate Depression Cake
• Sour Cream Chocolate Sheet Cake
• Chocolate Cupcakes
• Classic Vanilla Cake
• Chocolate Banana Bread
• Dark Chocolate Cookies

Can You Pipe This Frosting?

This fluffy peanut butter frosting is perfect for piping! It’s creamy, yet firm enough to pipe designs on cakes and cupcakes.

More Frosting Recipes

• Cool Whip Frosting
• Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
• Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
• Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

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Peanut Butter Frosting

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This peanut butter frosting recipe is perfect for peanut butter lovers and used for topping your favorite chocolate cake, cupcakes, fudge brownies or cookies.

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Prep: 10 minutes mins

Total: 10 minutes mins

Servings: 12 cupcakes

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Ingredients 

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• ▢ 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (two full sticks)
• ▢ 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ 2 tablespoons milk
• ▢ 3 cups powdered sugar

Instructions 

• In a large mixing bowl, or using a stand mixer and paddle attachment, beat the butter and peanut butter together until it is smooth and creamy.
• Add in the vanilla, salt, milk, and about half of the powdered sugar, mixing on low to medium speed for about 30 seconds.
• Next, add in the remaining half of the powdered sugar, and beat on medium to high speed until it is well blended and creamy.
• Using a spatula, scrape the sides of the bowl to get all of the ingredients combined into the frosting.
• Use a frosting spatula to frost a cake or piping bag to frost cupcakes. I used a Wilton 2D frosting tip.

Notes

This recipe will frost 12-24 cupcakes, 2- 8 inch round or 9 inch round cakes.

• Be sure to let the butter get to room temperature, or it won’t be as smooth.
• If you want to pipe a design, chill the frosting for about 30 minutes. You can also add one Tablespoon of powdered sugar at a time while mixing, until the frosting reaches your desired thickness.

Nutrition

Calories: 383kcalCarbohydrates: 35gProtein: 5gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 3gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 193mgPotassium: 131mgFiber: 1gSugar: 32gVitamin A: 477IUCalcium: 19mgIron: 0.4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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