Coffee Frosting for Cupcakes Easy Homemade Coffee Frosting
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This coffee buttercream frosting is fluffy, delicious, and amazingly easy to make at home. The recipe uses instant coffee, softened butter, powdered sugar and 1/2 tsp of milk. It's packed with coffee flavor is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and more.
Is it just me or do you love all the coffee flavored things too? From coffee cookies to coffee blondies, I cannot stop putting coffee into my desserts.
Especially chocolate desserts! Coffee is used a lot in chocolate desserts because it brings out the chocolate flavor even more. I love frosting my small 6 inch chocolate cake recipe with this icing!
Coffee icing is one of my favorite homemade frosting recipes to make! It was the first frosting recipe I made when I was in pastry school at Le Cordon Bleu. I know you will love it too!
Ingredients needed:
Instant coffee- were using this twice in the recipe. Once in the dissolved form, and then again by throwing some instant coffee granules into the mix! If you don't have instant you can also use whatever coffee granules you have.
Butter– It is essential that you use softened butter. The butter needs to be soft so that it creams well with the powdered sugar.
Milk or cream– These are interchangeable in this recipe, you can even use a dairy free milk or even water if you want!
If you don't have instant coffee you can use brewed coffee. You will need 1 tbsp. You can still use the dry granules as well to throw in the buttercream.
How to make coffee buttercream frosting
- Start by adding butter and sifted powdered sugar to the bowl of a hand or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. To cream butter and sugar well, beat on medium speed for 2 minutes until fluffy and pale yellow in color.
- Add in the dissolved instant coffee and beat again for 1 minute. Scrape down the bowl then add the cream and dry instant coffee granules and mix again for 30 seconds.
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Sifted confectioners sugar -
Butter and sugar mixed
HOW EASY IS THAT?!
How to store and freeze buttercream frosting
Store the frosting in an airtight container with a piece of plastic wrap lined directly over the frosting. This helps the buttercream from forming a crust.
You can also rip a piece of plastic wrap and dump the frosting on top of it. Wrap it up and store it in the fridge.
And yes, you can even freeze it for up to 2 months!
You can make the buttercream ahead too. Store it in the fridge if it's a week out, or on the counter top if it's just a couple of days.
Tips for recipe success
- Sift the confectioners sugar so that the frosting will be smoother and you wont have any clumps. This is not a necessary step but it does help!
- There really is no way to mess up this homemade frosting. If the frosting is too thick, then add 1/2 tbsp milk or cream at a time to loosen it.
- If the frosting is too thin, add a little more confectioners sugar (1/4 cup at a time) until it thickens.
You can adjust the coffee flavor by adding in more or less of the dry instant coffee granules, and remember the flavor will deepen over time!
That's what I love about DIY frosting recipes, you can really play with the flavors depending on what you like.
You can also leave out the dry granules if you prefer.
Yield
This homemade icing will fill and frost a 2 layer, 8″ cake or 12 cupcakes.
Desserts to top this with
- Chocolate cake!! This frosting works well in between layers and also to frost an entire cake with.
- Sandwich it between cookies.
- Vanilla cake
For cake decorating resources check out these posts:
How to Make a Professional Cake
How to Stack a 2 Tier Cake
5-Minute Coffee Buttercream Frosting Recipe
This homemade coffee buttercream frosting is fluffy, delicious, and amazingly easy to make. The recipe uses instant coffee, softened butter, powdered sugar and 1/2 tsp of milk. It's packed with coffee flavor is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and more.
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Servings: 1 2 layer cake or 12 cupcakes
Calories: 202 kcal
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Stand or Hand mixer
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 3 cups confectioners sugar sifted
- 1 1/2 tsp instant coffee granules divided
- 1/2 tsp milk or cream
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Add the 1 cup softened butter to the bowl of a hand or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the sifted 3 cups of confectioners sugar and beat on low speed working up to medium for 2 minutes.
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Dissolve 1 tsp of the instant coffee granules in 1 tbsp of water. With the mixer on medium speed add the coffee to the bowl. Stop and scrape down the bowl. Add the 1/2 tsp cream and the remaining 1/2 tsp dry instant granules to the frosting and mix on low speed until combined, about 1 minute.
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Spread all over cakes and cupcakes!
If you dont have instant coffee you can use the kind you use for the coffee machine, you will just have to brew it instead of adding the hot water to it. You will beed 1 tbsp of brewed coffee.
You can still use the dry coffee grounds to add to the buttercream.
Espresso powder works as a substitute too.
If the frosting is too thick, ass 1/2 tsp milk until you reach the desired consistency. If the frosting is too thin, add 1/4 cup confectioners sugar until thickened.
Nutrition Facts
5-Minute Coffee Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 piece)
Calories 202 Calories from Fat 108
% Daily Value*
Fat 12g 18%
Saturated Fat 8g 50%
Cholesterol 33mg 11%
Sodium 2mg 0%
Potassium 7mg 0%
Carbohydrates 24g 8%
Sugar 23g 26%
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin A 378IU 8%
Calcium 4mg 0%
Iron 1mg 6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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