Brown Butter Buttercream Frosting
Our Brown Butter Buttercream Frosting is a creamy and delicious buttercream frosting with an added nutty, toasty butter flavor that only can come from Brown Butter. So yummy and perfect for Fall desserts!
Brown Butter is so good. Buttery, nutty and delicious. We tried it in our super popular Buttercream Frosting and WOW did it taste great. Rich and creamy and unique. Brown Butter Buttercream frosting would taste great on so many fall desserts. We can’t wait try it on an apple cookie or a pumpkin cupcake! We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
The first step is to make a batch of Brown Butter. Place 1/2 cup of butter in a skillet on medium heat. Melt the butter and then allow it to continue to simmer on medium heat. The melted butter will start to bubble and a foam will appear and then brown crystals will begin to form. This is the good stuff. Stir every 30 seconds for about 6-7 minutes. This is what it should look like when it has reached “brown butter” stage. It will be golden brown, with yummy bits of brown butter goodness floating in the melted butter. When you reach this stage take the brown butter off the heat and pour it into a glass bowl to cool.
Allow the brown butter to cool but not solidify. Leave it on the counter, not the refrigerator. It should be ready in about an hour.
Next, measure your Powdered Sugar. If you don’t have a food scale the equivalent would be 4 cups. You can sift the powdered sugar if it is really lumpy or mix the powdered sugar on low for 30 seconds to break up any large lumps.
Add the softened butter and the powdered sugar to a mixing bowl.
Now add the brown butter to the mixing bowl. Use a spatula and make sure you get every bit of the yummy brown butter solids into the mixing bowl. That’s the stuff that tastes sooooo good.
Start your mixer (or electric beater) on the lowest setting. You can put clean dishtowel around your mixer to keep the sugar from flying out. Keep on low until the butter and sugar are incorporated and then kick your mixer up to medium high.
Add 1 tablespoon of milk and mix until it is the frosting right consistency. Continue to add milk a teaspoon at a time until it is the right consistency. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS taste your frosting. You are trying to determine if the consistency is wrong, if it needs more milk.
How much frosting will you need? That always depends on how thick or thin you apply the frosting or how much decorating you do but here are a couple of guidelines. Our recipe should make enough Brown Butter Buttercream Frosting to cover a 9″ x 13″ sheet cake or a two-layer 8″ cake. If you are making cupcakes, you should be able to frost 24 cupcakes if you apply the frosting with a knife.
That’s all there is to it. Enjoy!
Brown Butter Buttercream Frosting
Our Brown Butter Buttercream Frosting is a creamy and delicious buttercream frosting with an added nutty, toasty butter flavor that only comes from Brown Butter. So yummy and perfect for Fall desserts!
Ingredients
- 1 pound (4 cups) of Powdered Sugar
- 1/2 cup Softened Butter (We use Salted Sweet Cream Butter)
- 1/2 cup melted Brown Butter
- 1-2 tablespoons Milk
- Decorating Bags
- Wilton 2D Decorating Tip
- Mixer
Instructions
- Place 1/2 cup of butter in a skillet on medium heat. Melt the butter and then allow it to continue to simmer on medium heat. The melted butter will start to bubble and a foam will appear and then brown crystals will begin to form. Stir every 30 seconds for about 6-7 minutes. It will be golden brown, with yummy bits of brown butter goodness floating in the melted butter. When you reach this stage take the brown butter off the heat and pour it into a glass bowl to cool.
- Allow the brown butter to cool but not solidify. Leave it on the counter, not the refrigerator.
- Add the softened butter and the powdered sugar to a mixing bowl.
- Now add the brown butter to the mixing bowl. Use a spatula and make sure you get every bit of the yummy brown butter solids into the mixing bowl.
- Start your mixer (or electric beater) on the lowest setting. Keep on low until the butter and sugar are incorporated and then kick your mixer up to medium high.
- Add 1 tablespoon of milk and mix until it is the frosting right consistency. Continue to add milk a teaspoon at a time until it is the right consistency.
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