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Almond Buttercream Frosting Recipe

Get this four-ingredient, super simple recipe for almond buttercream frosting. Ready in 5 minutes! Easy to halve, double or triple, just make sure you have soft butter!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword almond buttercream, almond buttercream frosting, buttercream frosting, buttercream frosting recipe, dessert
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 12 cupcakes
Calories 218kcal
Author Katie Cooksey

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 2 teaspoons almond extract
  • 1 pound powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons milk or more, as needed
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Instructions

  • In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, add butter, powdered sugar and almond extract.
    A mixer with a beater attachment is in a glass bowl holding flour, sugar, and butter, ready for mixing on a light-colored countertop.
  • Using the paddle attachment (or electric hand mixer), start to combine those ingredients.
  • With the mixer on, slowly stream in your milk tablespoon by tablespoon until it starts to come together and look creamy.
    A person adds liquid from a spoon into a stand mixer bowl containing a creamy mixture.
  • If it hasn’t come together, add another tablespoon, mix and wait it out. After about 2 or 3 tablespoons, your frosting should be thick enough to hold its shape, but light enough to have a butter knife or rubber scraper run through it with ease.
    Hand holding a mixer paddle with creamy batter over a glass mixing bowl.
  • Once you reach this point, the buttercream is ready to use as desired.
    Cupcakes with white frosting on plates, surrounded by gold spoons, small bowls, and a piping bag on a light surface.

Notes

One frosting recipe will frost:
  • 1 2-layer 8-inch cake OR
  • 1 9x13 cake OR
  • 12 cupcakes using a piping bag OR
  • 24 cupcakes using a butter knife

Nutrition

Calories: 218kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 63mg | Potassium: 8mg | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 240IU | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 0.03mg
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