White Chocolate Mascarpone Frosting
At long last we hit the jackpot with this White Chocolate Mascarpone Frosting, an exquisitely light yet creamily chocolaty, slightly tangy and not overly sweet frosting that pipes like a dream, perfect for frosting and decorating cakes and absolutely yummilicious to boot!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 8 oz white chocolate, 227g
- 3/4 cup whipping cream, 178g
- 1 cup mascarpone, 225g
- 8 oz butter, room temperature, 227g
- pinch salt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar, shifted, 188g
Instructions
- 1
Chop up white chocolate into small pieces. Add chocolate and cream into a double boiler. Stir until the chocolate is melted and smooth. Let cool.
- 2
Slice butter into cubes.
- 3
Beat mascarpone, butter, salt, vanilla for a couple of minutes on medium speed until fluffy and light.
- 4
Add in cooled chocolate cream mixture and use whisk until incorporated.
- 5
Turn speed to low and add powdered sugar and mix in. Turn speed to high and whisk 2 mins until light and fluffy.
- 6
Use offset icing spatula and piping bag to frost cake.