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Creamy Peanut Butter Icing

Creamy Peanut Butter Icing

Name: Creamy Peanut Butter Icing
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; ½ cup creamy peanut butter, or more to taste; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 pinch salt; 4 cups confectioners' sugar; ¼ cup milk, or more as needed

Rating: 4.72 stars

121 Ratings
99 Reviews
28 Photos

A creamy, no-cook peanut butter icing. Perfect on chocolate cake! Should be enough to ice 24 cupcakes or 1 cake.

By DSPTina

Recipe Summary

prep:

10 mins

total:

10 mins

Servings:

Yield:

24 servings

Nutrition Info

Ingredients

Original recipe yields 24 servings

The ingredient list now reflects the servings specified

1 cup butter, softened
½ cup creamy peanut butter, or more to taste
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
4 cups confectioners' sugar
¼ cup milk, or more as needed

Directions

Step 1

Beat butter in a bowl using an electric mixer until fluffy. Add peanut butter, vanilla extract, and salt; beat until incorporated. Slowly pour confectioners' sugar into peanut butter mixture while continuing to beat with the mixer; add milk until desired thickness is reached.

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Nutrition Facts

Per Serving:

182.5 calories; 1.5 g protein; 22 g carbohydrates; 20.5 mg cholesterol; 80.4 mg sodium. Full Nutrition

Reviews (99)

Most helpful positive review

cbcampana

01/27/2015

This recipe is great!!! I used closer to a cup of peanut butter and it was the perfect amount for the chocolate cake I made! Everyone who had the cake raved about the frosting! Will definitely make this again!!! Read More

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Most helpful critical review

Reagan H

05/30/2016

It was pretty delicious and many raved of how awesome it was, but next time I would do about a cup less of sugar and maybe a tiny bit more milk to make it creamier. With so much sugar in it, it makes the frosting kind of grainy if that makes sense. Read More

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121 Ratings

5 star values: 94
4 star values: 20
3 star values: 7
2 star values: 0
1 star values: 0

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cbcampana

01/27/2015

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Designer1

01/23/2017

This peanut butter frosting recipe turned out beautifully. After reading others comments and experiences, I made a few revisions with excellent results. 1. Creamed the butter at high speed with whip attachment until the butter was a pale yellow. 2. Added 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, pinch of salt and whipped until combined. 3. Added 1 Cup smooth peanut butter and 1/3 of a 8 oz. package of cream cheese and whipped again until combined and fluffy. 4. Gradually added 2 C confectioners sugar and whipped until fluffy. 5. Added about 3 T heavy whipping cream and whipped again to combine. Use your judgement about the amount of cream needed...frosting should be light and fluffy. The frosting was defintely sweet enough with 2 cups of confectioners sugar. I used this to frost the Black Maguc Cake (the one that calls for adding 1/2 cup boiling water at the end) recipe on this website. Made a few changes to that recipe as well including adding 1 package mini chocolate chips, 8 oz. sour cream instead of buttermilk and using plain boiling water instead of coffee. Baked in 9" x 13" pan 25-30 min at 350. Perfect amount of frosting. Rave comments from women and men alike. Asked if it was an old family recipe. Read More

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Glo

06/05/2015

I needed to ice a 13 x 9 cake for a fire department BBQ and was craving peanut butter. I used 3/4 cup peanut butter, 3 full cups of sugar and maybe 2 T of milk. The icing spread beautifully and I had about 1/4-1/2 cup left over which I am saving to eat with a spoon. It's just right! Read More

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Ashley Dunn

11/29/2014

Very creamy and great peanut butter flavor. I only used 3 cups of conf. sugar though. That was plenty sweet. Read More

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Reagan H

05/30/2016

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Alina v

10/18/2015

I really like this recipe I tweaked it a bit rather than 1/2 cup of peanut butter I do a 1 cup and rather than 4 cups of confectionary sugar I do 2 cups and lastly I add a dalop of cream cheese! Read More

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ABDW

06/06/2015

Easy & delicious. This frosting saved a batch of cupcakes that I wasn't excited about. I made it exactly as written. It was perfect consistency for spreading with my Wilton cupcake decorating set. Read More

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CarrotSoup

11/15/2015

Excellent recipe. I also used a cup of peanut butter instead of 1/2 a cup and cut back one cup of confectioners' sugar. I agree with the other reviews that it was sweet enough with less sugar. It was delicious!!! Read More

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Fatehpur

09/09/2015

EXCELLENT!!!!! I put this on top of the Black Magic cake on this site. The taste was great! I used 1 cup of the whipped peanut butter and I think it turns out perfect. Read More

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Very creamy and great peanut butter flavor. I only used 3 cups of conf. sugar though. That was plenty sweet.

I really like this recipe I tweaked it a bit rather than 1/2 cup of peanut butter I do a 1 cup and rather than 4 cups of confectionary sugar I do 2 cups and lastly I add a dalop of cream cheese!

Easy & delicious. This frosting saved a batch of cupcakes that I wasn't excited about. I made it exactly as written. It was perfect consistency for spreading with my Wilton cupcake decorating set.

EXCELLENT!!!!! I put this on top of the Black Magic cake on this site. The taste was great! I used 1 cup of the whipped peanut butter and I think it turns out perfect.