Peanut Butter Icing

Rich, creamy, and extremely easy to make Peanut Butter Icing is the perfect consistency with a fabulous peanut butter taste.

If you love peanut butter even half as much as I do, then you will definitely want to make this Peanut Butter Icing.

I have this awesome friend who owns a cupcake shop, and she has these peanut butter cup cupcakes that are seriously good. I LOVE them. The icing tastes like a light whipped peanut butter, and then it has this tasty ganache covering it. Anyway, I kept trying to make my own peanut butter frosting, and I had a really hard time getting the right balance so that it tasted like peanut butter, but had the powdered sugar and other ingredients in it to help keep it fluffier and lighter than just scooping on a big old dollop of peanut butter.

After a lot of trial and error, and a lot of empty jars of peanut butter, which I totally used my fingers to clean out so I did not waste any of that tasty goodness, I finally found the combination that made me happy for my Peanut Butter Icing. I get the icing consistency with the peanut butter taste.

These pictures are not doing it justice, so whip up a batch for yourself Peanut Butter Icing, and be sure to try it! SOOOOOO good.  You can eat it with a spoon if you want, I won’t judge. But I love it on chocolate cupcakes, or even peanut butter banana bread. I will share my favorite peanut butter banana bread recipe with you soon, so keep an eye out!

Other peanut butter recipes you may enjoy:

• Flourless Peanut Butter Caramel Bars
• Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles
• Lighter No-Bake Peanut Butter Banana Pie
• Healthy Protein Peanut Butter Cups
• Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bar Smoothie
  
  

  Peanut Butter Frosting

  Rich, creamy, and extremely easy to make Peanut Butter Icing is the perfect consistency with a fabulous peanut butter taste.

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  Course: Dessert

  Cuisine: American

  Keyword: frosting, Peanut Butter

  Prep Time: 5 minutes

  Total Time: 5 minutes

  Servings: 12

  Calories: 303kcal

  Author: Rachael

  Ingredients

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 1/4 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened

  Instructions

  • In a large bowl use hand mixer to mix together peanut butter layer ingredients until well incorporated and creamy. I used my Hamilton Beach Hand Mixerthat I keep handy while in my kitchen because it has 6 attachments so one of them is perfect for whatever recipe I am working on.

  Nutrition

  Calories: 303kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 318mg | Potassium: 174mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 235IU | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 0.5mg

  Our recipe card software calculates these nutrition facts based on averages for the above ingredients, different brands, and quality of produce/meats may have different nutritional information, always calculate your own based on the specific products you use in order to achieve accurate macros for this recipe.

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