Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
This silky smooth peanut butter cream cheese frosting will put a delicious twist on your favorite desserts without the guilt!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- No separate cook time
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 450 g Cream cheese (full fat (33%+) eg. Philadelphia - no need to bring it to room temp.)
- 150 g Mascarpone (full fat (41%+) - no need to bring it to room temp.)
- 90 g Powdered sugar (sifted)
- 150 g Peanut butter (smooth)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1
Frosting
- 2
Place the cream cheese and mascarpone into a mixing bowl along with sifted powdered sugar then slowly start whipping up the mixture with an electric hand mixer.
- 3
Increase the speed of your mixer, and continue whipping.
- 4
Just before the mixture starts to thicken, add the vanilla extract and smooth peanut butter to the mixture and continue whipping.
- 5
When the frosting reaches a fluffy, pipeable consistency, stop right there and do not overmix. If you continue whipping the frosting, it will separate and gets runny.
- 6
Use the frosting according to the recipe.
- 7
Store refrigerated for 3 days in an airtight container