Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe – Sally’s Baking Habit

Let me train you easy methods to make naturally flavored (and naturally coloured) strawberry buttercream frosting. The key is to exchange some confectioners’ sugar with freeze-dried strawberry powder. This strawberry buttercream is extremely creamy and clean, with a great deal of actual strawberry taste.

Initially printed in 2017. New pictures & success ideas added in 2023.

Let’s speak about easy methods to make naturally flavored, naturally pink strawberry buttercream frosting.

Have you ever ever tried making frosting with contemporary strawberries? I’ve, and the outcomes have been disastrous. I chopped up the strawberries, even blotted the moisture just a little bit, pureed them, after which added it to a vanilla frosting. The buttercream immediately curdled because of the surplus moisture—yuck! Similar factor occurred with strawberry jam, which additionally made the frosting too candy.

As an alternative 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 really the gorgeous pink striped candies you see on the quilt. The filling is creamy and clean with numerous concentrated strawberry taste, which comes from—you guessed it—floor freeze-dried strawberries. I made a decision to make precise strawberry frosting the identical actual approach. If you happen to’d like a visible information for easy methods to make it, watch the video tutorial within the recipe card beneath.

It’s very easy.

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Strawberry Buttercream Frosting (6 Components)

1. Freeze-Dried Strawberries: You’ll grind these right into a powder. Wish to make a raspberry buttercream? Use freeze-dried raspberries as a substitute.
2. Unsalted Butter: Begin with room temperature butter. Room temperature butter is definitely cooler than you assume. If the butter is simply too heat, the frosting can be greasy.
3. Confectioners’ Sugar: Confectioners’ sugar is the majority of this frosting, sweetening it and binding the components collectively.
4. Heavy Cream or Milk: Liquid thins out and provides creaminess to the frosting. You should use heavy cream, milk, and even half-and-half.
5. Vanilla Extract: Vanilla extract provides unbelievable taste.
6. 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 Easy Strawberry Buttercream:

If you happen to 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 effective mesh sieve, and use simply the super-fine strawberry mud. If I’ve an additional minute, I normally 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 all the time 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.

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What Tastes Finest With Strawberry Buttercream?

The flavour-combo prospects are limitless! This recipe makes sufficient for a dozen cupcakes, a 3-layer 6-inch cake, or a 9×13-inch quarter sheet cake. I’d 1.5x the recipe for a 2-layer cake.

I additionally halve the recipe and use it to fill these chocolate coated strawberry cupcakes.

Strawberry Frosting Variations

If you happen to love strawberry buttercream frosting, you’ll additionally love these scrumptious variations!

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