Honey Buttercream Frosting
Learn how to make buttercream with honey! This easy Honey Buttercream Frosting recipe can be used for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, and more!
Equipment
- Digital Food Scale
- Stand Mixer
Ingredients
- 226 grams salted butter (softened)
- 454 grams powdered sugar (sifted)
- 43 grams raw honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the butter, powdered sugar, honey, and vanilla extract.
- Mix on low until combined, then speed mixer up to high and mix for 2 to 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl part way through mixing, this ensures everything is mixed. Mix again for another few minutes.
- Then it's ready to use on cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies and more!
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Notes
Tips
- Always weigh ingredients for the best results. Plus, honey is so much easier to weigh right into the stand mixing bowl as it's so sticky!
- I use my stand mixer for ease, but any electric mixer will work. If you are using a hand mixer, make sure to use a large mixing bowl as there's a lot of powdered sugar. If you are using a hand mixer, you'll want to add in the powdered sugar in stages, this way it mixes in easily. You'll also need to go from low speed to medium speed, to high speed more gradually as you mix in the powdered sugar.
- Make sure to use room temperature butter so it's soft. Cold butter is not ideal as it is difficult to mix into powdered sugar and we already need to whip this for 3-5 minutes, if you use cold butter this will take so much longer!
- One of my top tricks for ensuring powdered sugar doesn't fly everywhere is to pulse the mixer at first. This will ensure that the powdered sugar gets incorporated into the butter slowly without it flying everywhere!
- Scraping down the sides of the bowl part way through mixing is essential. This ensures that butter pieces that are stuck to the sides get incorporated and there's no chunks of anything.
- Be sure to whip frosting well so it's light and fluffy.
- Store extra frosting in an airtight container in the fridge.
- You can re-whip frosting from the refrigerator to make it soft and fluffy again. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl when doing this to incorporate all the dried portions.
- High Altitude — Follow the recipe as noted.
Nutrition
Calories: 294kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 0.2gFat: 15gSaturated Fat: 10gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 40mgSodium: 122mgPotassium: 8mgFiber: 0.01gSugar: 40gVitamin A: 471IUVitamin C: 0.02mgCalcium: 5mgIron: 0.04mg
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