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Peanut Butter Frosting

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oh so gooooooood. I put this on plain old chocolate cupcakes.  Then I put it on vanilla cupcakes.  I think tomorrow I am going to put it on anything I eat.

  • 1 8 oz. pkg of cream cheese (room temp)
  • 1 stick of butter (room temp)
  • 4 c. powdered sugar
  • 3/4 c. jif peanut butter

Mix the cream cheese and butter together, add the sugar a cup at a time (you may want to use more, I actually really like how unsweet this frosting is)  Beat until fluffy, about two minutes.  Add peanut butter and blend until smooth.

I made half a batch of this with crunchy peanut butter and half with smooth.  Both were fantastic.  The crunchy was much harder  to pipe obviously.

I frosted 31 cupcakes generously with one batch of this.

Originally from Sky High: Irresistible Triple Layer Cakes, and featured on the Smitten Kitchen site (check out the cake it was originally intended for….sexy! Adapted to work for cupcakes.

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4 Responses to “Peanut Butter Frosting”

  1. One Tall Redhead Says:

    I have had about 7 of these cupcakes in the past two days and I cannot stop thinking about them. I will be making these for my father’s 80th birthday coming up. They are a peanut butter/chocolate lovers DREAM. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

  2. One Tall Redhead Says:

    P.S. Which chocolate cupcakes recipe did you use? I loved it.

  3. Sharky Says:

    I ate these cupcakes with the said frosting. I think I said something that came out insulting like: “Wow, these are actually good.”

    This is not because I do not respect the cook or her cookery. It is because I like to eat seals, sea lions, tuna and what not…I don’t usually like sweets. But I liked these. WUT?

  4. ehme Says:

    OTR-That batch was the actual cake recipe from the recipe in the link. Super easy one bowl recipe.

    Sharky–I think you should make a shark friendly meatloaf for the upcoming festivities. Sea lion loaf? Oh yeah.

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