Coffee Buttercream
This easy recipe for Coffee Buttercream is a coffee lover's dream! Use this fluffy frosting on cakes and cupcakes.
Servings: 3 cups
Calories: 1400kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g unsalted butter
- 600 g icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 70 ml whole milk
- 1 tbsp instant coffee granules
- 2 teaspoon hot water
Instructions
- Add the icing sugar, and unsalted butter to a bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat at medium speed until combined, the mixture should look like fine breadcrumbs
- Add the vanilla to the milk and slowly pour this into the powdered sugar mixture with the mixer running at low speed.
- Once all of the milk has been added scrape down the sides of the bowl. Mix the frosting again at medium-high speed for about 5 minutes or until the frosting is light and fluffy. If the frosting seems too thick beat again.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl often with a rubber spatula when beating to ensure that the frosting is beating thoroughly.
- In a small bowl combine the hot water and coffee, and allow the coffee to dissolve. Add the coffee mixture to the buttercream and beat again at medium-high speed. The coffee buttercream is ready to use on cakes and cupcakes.
Nutrition
Calories: 1400kcal | Carbohydrates: 202g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 68g | Saturated Fat: 43g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 18g | Trans Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 182mg | Sodium: 23mg | Potassium: 122mg | Sugar: 197g | Vitamin A: 2121IU | Calcium: 54mg | Iron: 0.2mg
