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The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

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The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting.

Mixing ingredients in standing kitchen mixer to make buttercream frosting.

 I helped throw this Little Peanut Elephant Baby shower found here and my friend made the most delicious cupcakes (I photographed them below).

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

The frosting is literally the BEST vanilla bean frosting I’ve ever had. It holds its shape nicely for frosting cakes and cupcakes, yet is super soft and smooth when eating. It even ties (or maybe beats) my very popular Best Cream Cheese frosting recipe here. So, I asked her for the frosting recipe and if I could share it on my blog, and she said of course!

I made it the other day to top the white pudding cupcakes we had for my daughter’s first birthday.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

I garnished the frosting with fondant flowers called Wilton 710-2215 Icing Decoration, Royal Flower Rainbow, Mini which can be found here.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

As well as decorative sugar pearls found here.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

The baking liners I used are Wilton Ruffle Baking Cups, Standard, 24-Count, Pink found here.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

They looked really cute on this stand!

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

And better yet, they tasted DELICIOUS!

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

I ended up tweaking things in the recipe just a little because the original recipe calls for unsalted butter and I only had salted. I actually prefer frosting with salt, so by making tweaks to balance the flavors, it came out just as good.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

I’ve included both recipes below. If you prefer a little salt in your frosting you can use the salted butter version, if not try the unsalted version!

Check out the video on how to make this frosting on this webpage.

This recipe frosted 36 cupcakes generously plus it frosted this little 6″ round cake that I made and put fondant over.

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

Note- Very typical ingredients are used for this recipe except Vanilla Bean paste found here or one vanilla bean that you can find here. It calls for either one, not both.

Supply List The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting

Wilton 710-2215 Icing Decoration, Royal Flower Rainbow, Mini

Sugar pearls – Decorative

Wilton Ruffle Baking Cups, Standard, 24-Count, Pink

Stand

Mixer

spatula

measuring cups and spoons

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting- Salted Butter Version

The Best Vanilla Bean Frosting- Salted Butter Version

Yield: 36 cupcakes 1 small cake
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes

The BEST vanilla Bean frosting I have ever tasted!

Ingredients

  • 3 sticks salted butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean)
  • 3 1/4 teaspoons clear vanilla extract (or normal, if you don't have clear)
  • 7 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar (or full 32 oz bag)
  • 8 tablespoons heavy cream or milk (or more, as desired consistency)

Instructions

  1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the butter and vanilla bean seeds. Beat on high until fluffy.
  2. Turn the mixer to low speed and slowly add the confectioners' sugar a cup at a time while continuing to beat.
  3. Once well blended, add in the vanilla and 4 tablespoons heavy cream or milk. Mix on low speed until well combined and moist.
  4. If needed, add an additional 1 to 2 tablespoons of heavy cream or milk until your desired consistency is reached. Beat at high speed until frosting is smooth and fluffy.
  5. Taste test and add more ingredients as needed to achieve a frosting where all flavors can be tasted without overpowering the others: sugar, cream, butter and vanilla.

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Enjoy!

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This looks so easy and pretty I am almost drooling it looks so good. Can't wait to try making it. Thanks for sharing on Thursday Favorite Things!

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It is very simple and so delicious. It is drool worthy for sure haha! Thanks for stopping by!

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Yummy! This looks delicious!! I can't wait to try it!

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