Community Pick
Creamy Peanut Butter Frosting
"This was so easy to make and tastes delicious. I was also able to use some with some red food coloring to decorate the cake. I have had it written on a piece of paper for a long time.. don't know where I got it, but I needed to make a cake today and remembered this. This makes enough to frost and fill a two layer 9 inch cake, or frost a sheet cake."
photo by shannon_m_parker_56
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened to room temperature)
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
directions
- Cream butter and peanut butter together.
- Add half the powdered sugar and blend.
- Blend in milk and vanilla.
- Add remaining powdered sugar.
- Stir until smooth and well blended.
Questions & Replies
-
Did you use salted or unsalted butter?
Reviews
-
I wish I could give more than 5 stars! It was fabulous! I found that it tasted like the inside of a buckeye! I halved the recipe and was able to frost a 13x9 inch chocolate sheet cake! I do think the texture was a little off, so next time I'll add a touch more milk, but other than that I have no complaints! A very wonderful frosting, and something I will definitely make again! One of my favorite frostings! Thanks SO much! -
twenty stars. holy cow. this rocks. so light and fluffy and absolutely fab. made for a chocolate cake and decided to forget the cake and just have some frosting instead! will use this fo-ev-ah. thanks a zillion. -
My son LOVES PB&J, so I experimented with making PB&J cupcakes for his birthday. I used a white cake mix, squirt jelly in the middle, and frosted with this PB frosting. It worked pretty well. If I were to use this recipe again I would put less powdered sugar and/or more PB. It was just a little too sweet for these cupcakes.
-
This recipe is absolutely delicious! I put this on a chocolate cake and it's the perfect pairing. However, it was a little heavy. To help this I whipped the frosting once finished on high for about 2-3 minute is my stand mixer. This not only made more frosting so that I could easily frost a two-layered cake, but aerated the frosting making it lighter and much fluffier. -
This is so tasty. Creamy sweet and perfect texture. Will deffinently use this recipe again.
see 111 more reviews
Tweaks
-
This is perfect the way it is for 2 layer cakes. When I made it for brownies and cupcakes I increased the peanut butter by 1/4 of a cup and reduce the powdered sugar by one cup to cut the sweetness I bit since the ratio of icing to take Etc is higher. It was a big hit with the adults as well as the kids. Also sprinkled M&Ms or Reese's Pieces on them for Easter treats -
Dear heavens this was amazing. Made only a quarter batch, no vanilla (none on hand), used chunky peanut butter, and whip cream instead of milk (just splashed it in as needed), and not quite the full amount of powdered sugar. Used it to top The Best Banana Cake Ever and this combo was To. Die. For.
-
This frosting is scrumptious at worst, and ethereal at best!! I topped some cupcakes with it, only substituting heavy cream for the milk because thats what I had on hand. People just raved and raved at the party. VERY RICH for adults but kids didn't even notice...
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
CoolMonday
United States
Sadly, CoolMonday passed away on November 16, 2007. She will be missed by her many friends at Recipezaar; and we're grateful for the fond memories we have.
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/Animation1.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/4treasurehunt.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y53/DUCHESS13/berriesblinkie.gif" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> I'm the number one gramma of Rusty, Michael and Nikki. I know that because they told me so... hehehe...I live in the eternal city of lights, Las Vegas, Nevada. I stopped working about 3 years ago when I had some personal situations requiring my attention.
I do love pizza, especially cold for breakfast the next day.. Since I discovered Zaar, I now prepare a large family meal once a month and I enjoy saving recipes and passing them on to my daughter. Most of the dishes are from Recipezaar.. so thank you very much.
I have a good housekeeping cookbook that's about 40 years old and I love it... I have recipes I have saved over the years and have posted some of them.
My pet peeve???? hmmmm that would have to be rude or inconsiderate people. Another pet peeve is people who "tell it like it is".
