Let me train you the right way to make naturally flavored (and naturally coloured) strawberry buttercream frosting. The key is to switch some confectioners’ sugar with freeze-dried strawberry powder. This strawberry buttercream is extremely creamy and easy, with a great deal of actual strawberry taste.
Initially printed in 2017. New pictures & success ideas added in 2023.
Let’s discuss the right way to make naturally flavored, naturally pink strawberry buttercream frosting.
Have you ever ever tried making frosting with recent strawberries? I’ve, and the outcomes have been disastrous. I chopped up the strawberries, even blotted the moisture slightly bit, pureed them, after which added it to a vanilla frosting. The buttercream immediately curdled on account of the surplus moisture—yuck! Similar factor occurred with strawberry jam, which additionally made the frosting too candy.
As a substitute of counting on synthetic strawberry taste, I attempted a trick I realized whereas writing my cookbook Sally’s Sweet Habit. Use freeze-dried strawberry powder!
I’ve a recipe for strawberry buttercream candies in that cookbook—they’re truly the gorgeous pink striped candies you see on the quilt. The filling is creamy and easy with a lot of concentrated strawberry taste, which comes from—you guessed it—floor freeze-dried strawberries. I made a decision to make precise strawberry frosting the identical precise approach. For those who’d like a visible information for the right way to make it, watch the video tutorial within the recipe card beneath.
It’s very easy.
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting (6 Substances)
- Freeze-Dried Strawberries: You’ll grind these right into a powder. Need to make a raspberry buttercream? Use freeze-dried raspberries as an alternative.
- Unsalted Butter: Begin with room temperature butter. Room temperature butter is definitely cooler than you suppose. If the butter is simply too heat, the frosting shall be greasy.
- Confectioners’ Sugar: Confectioners’ sugar is the majority of this frosting, sweetening it and binding the elements collectively.
- Heavy Cream or Milk: Liquid thins out and provides creaminess to the frosting. You should utilize heavy cream, milk, and even half-and-half.
- Vanilla Extract: Vanilla extract provides unimaginable taste.
- Salt: A pinch of salt offsets all of the sweetness.
That’s it! No synthetic flavoring or meals coloring on this fairly pink strawberry frosting.
Grind the freeze-dried strawberries into powder utilizing a meals processor or blender:
Success Tip for Tremendous Clean Strawberry Buttercream:
For those who want a smoother strawberry buttercream, with not one of the teeny-tiny seeds, you possibly can sift out the seeds and bigger items of the bottom freeze-dried strawberries with a fantastic mesh sieve, and use simply the super-fine strawberry mud. If I’ve an additional minute, I often do that.
The remainder of the recipe is much like making common vanilla buttercream or chocolate buttercream. You’ll want a handheld or stand mixer.
The place Can I Purchase Freeze-Dried Strawberries?
I at all times discover freeze-dried strawberries in my common grocery retailer within the dried fruit aisle. Dealer Joe’s, Entire Meals, some greenback shops, Goal, and Amazon carry them.
Don’t use “dried strawberries,” that are chewy like raisins or dried apricots. They’ve a gummy texture and don’t grind right into a powder. You want freeze-dried strawberries, which have the entire moisture eliminated. They’re the identical strawberries we use in strawberry and cream cookies.
What Tastes Finest With Strawberry Buttercream?
The flavour-combo prospects are infinite! This recipe makes sufficient for a dozen cupcakes, a 3-layer 6-inch cake, or a 9×13-inch quarter sheet cake. I might 1.5x the recipe for a 2-layer cake.
I additionally halve the recipe and use it to fill these chocolate lined strawberry cupcakes.
Strawberry Frosting Variations
For those who love strawberry buttercream frosting, you’ll additionally love these scrumptious variations!
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Prepare dinner Time: 0 minutes
Complete Time: 10 minutes
Yield: about 3 cups
Class: Frosting
Methodology: Baking
Delicacies: American
Description
Freeze-dried strawberries are the key to including actual taste and pure shade to strawberry buttercream frosting. Wealthy and creamy, this flavorful frosting pairs completely with an array of confections together with chocolate cupcakes, lemon cupcakes, and/or a vanilla sheet cake.
Directions
- Utilizing a meals processor or blender, course of the freeze-dried strawberries right into a powdery crumb. You must have round 1/2 cup. If it’s not grinding down fantastic sufficient, you possibly can sift it with a fantastic mesh sieve to rid bigger seeds/items. Put aside.
- In a big bowl utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment, beat the butter on medium-high velocity till creamy, about 2 minutes. Add confectioners’ sugar, strawberry powder, heavy cream/milk, and vanilla. Beat on low velocity for 30 seconds, then swap to excessive velocity and beat for two minutes. Style. Add 1–2 extra Tablespoons of heavy cream/milk if wanted to skinny out, if desired. (I often add at the very least 1 extra.) Add a pinch of salt if frosting is simply too candy.
- Use instantly or cowl tightly and retailer for as much as 1 week within the fridge or as much as 3 months within the freezer. After freezing, thaw within the fridge then beat the frosting on medium velocity for a couple of seconds so it’s creamy once more. After thawing or refrigerating, beating in a splash of heavy cream or milk will assist skinny the frosting out once more, if wanted. (It stiffens within the fridge.)
Notes
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Meals Processor | High-quality Mesh Sieve | Electrical Mixer (Handheld or Stand Mixer)
- The place to seek out freeze-dried strawberries: I at all times discover freeze-dried strawberries in my common grocery retailer within the dried fruit aisle. Dealer Joe’s, Entire Meals, some greenback shops, Goal, and Amazon carry them.
- Don't use recent, frozen, or dried strawberries. Contemporary and frozen strawberries add an excessive amount of moisture. Dried strawberries are chewy like raisins or dried apricots. They've a gummy texture and don’t grind right into a powder. You want freeze-dried strawberries, which have the entire moisture eliminated.
- Heavy Cream: Heavy cream produces an additional creamy frosting, however complete milk or half-and-half work too. Decrease fats or nondairy milks work in a pinch, however the frosting gained’t be as creamy.
- Amount: This recipe is sufficient to frost 12–18 cupcakes, or a skinny layer on a 9×13-inch quarter sheet cake. 1.5x the recipe for a 2-layer cake. (Doubling the recipe could be far an excessive amount of.)
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