I went to a wedding last weekend that had cupcakes in addition to a wedding cake. they had a chocolate cupcake with a creamy PB flavored frosting. the PB really cut the sweetness of the BCit was just piped on the cupcake with a big star tip, nothing fancy but it was definitely pretty firm at the slightly cooler than room temp that it was served at.

any ideas? i'd think just adding PB to a the wilton class buttercream recipe i use would make it too soft.

I think you could try it. I never have but I think it would be interesting to find out. If adding pb makes it too soft, you can always add some more powdered sugar to get it back to the right consistency. Maybe you could try starting off with thick consistency and limit your liquids at first until after you add the pb.

Hope it works! Let us know how it turns out.

I added peanut butter to my regular all-butter buttercream icing recently, and it was magnificent! Just add to taste--I didn't measure--and add more powdered sugar or liquid as necessary.

Modthyrth,
Does your peanut butter icing have the same consistency of a regular crusting buttercream? I've tried adding PB to the half crisco -half butter recipe but it comes out fluffy-delicious-but too fluffy. Do you think it's because I added the crisco AND the pb?

Ediecooks-sorry wasn't trying to hijack your thread, but I was searching for this answer when I saw your post


Amy

Here's a CC peanut butter buttercream recipe:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-877-36-Peanut-Butter-Frosting.html

HTH

Hmm, I made my pb buttercream with an all-butter bc. It was going under fondant, so I didn't care about crusting and didn't pay a lot of attention to the texture, sorry!

I make a caramel vanilla cake with peanut butter chips and the icing that I use is a peanut butter butter cream. I simply add about 1/2-3/4 cup to my regular vanilla butter cream, and mix extra well with my stand mixer. If it gets too "thin", I just add in more powdered sugar. Easy fix! I also add peanut butter to cream cheese for a filling with the above cake. Again, I just add peanut butter to my cream cheese icing. Yummy and oh, so good!!!

Amy

thanks everyone!

i've bookmarked that recipe in my box and will try it out!

Just wanted ya'll to get a good laugh. I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was using the paddle instead of the beater on my mixer. So, I was mixing instead of beating..and apparently I didn't do it long enough. DUH!!

I only use my paddle attachment for my KA unless I'm making bread or MMF with the dough hook or whipping egg whites for meringue or angel food cake with my beater.