Coconut Frosting

When you love coconut the way in which I do, you’ll love this four-ingredient coconut frosting!

It’s wealthy and creamy and stuffed with coconut taste. Coconut frosting is ideal for topping muffins, or piping onto cupcakes, and even cookies!

bowl of Coconut Frosting with a whisk beside it

Our Favourite Coconut Frosting!

It’s coconutty goodness, excellent for spring and summer time desserts!
Fast and straightforward to whip up for last-minute dessert choices.
Batch-friendly: double it up and freeze half for an additional dessert.
Use it for coconut cake (or cupcakes) or white cake, yellow cake, chocolate cake, amongst many others.
Coconut cupcakes with coconut frosting? Double the delight!

powdered sugar , coconut cream , coconut extract , salt and butter with labels to make Coconut Frosting

Elements for Coconut Frosting

Coconut Cream – Coconut cream is concentrated, thick, and comes from cooked coconut. It’s totally different from coconut milk, which is made by steeping the flesh in sizzling water and straining it

Butter – Use actual unsalted butter for its wealthy taste and nice consistency. Margarine or butter substitutes have the next oil or water ratio so the outcomes received’t be the identical. Unsalted butter is greatest, if all you’ve is salted butter, skip the salt within the recipe.

Sugar – Powdered sugar giaves an additional fluffy texture and dissolves into the butter.
No powdered sugar? Common white sugar with a tablespoon of cornstarch per cup, whizzed in a meals processor or espresso grinder, works simply as nicely!

Coconut extract – Coconut extract amps up the coconut taste! You will discover it within the baking aisle of most grocery shops or you’ll be able to add it to your Amazon cart here.

Variations – Gently fold in shredded coconut if you happen to’d like (sweetened or unsweetened) or use it as a garnish. Frivolously toast the coconut for an added crunch and a pop of coloration. Add a drop or two of meals coloring to make shades of pink, inexperienced, yellow, or any coloration that matches the recipe of the day!

adding powdered sugar to butter to make Coconut Frosting

How you can Make Coconut Frosting

Beat butter till gentle and fluffy (as per the recipe beneath).
Add sugar one cup at a time after which add extract.
Slowly add coconut cream till the specified texture and firmness are reached. Add a pinch of salt (non-obligatory) and unfold or pipe onto cake or cupcakes.

Serve with Coconut Cake

Dreaming of a decadent coconut cake? This frosting, filled with coconut taste, is the proper completion that’ll have everybody swooning for seconds!

Coconut Cake

Desserts

This tasty coconut cake is simple to make and has easy components. Attempt it with white chocolate cream frosting, lemon icing, or a scrumptious coconut frosting. So many choices!

Can You Make Forward?

Prep coconut frosting forward and hold it within the fridge in an hermetic container for as much as every week.
Freeze in a zippered bag for as much as 3 months, however thaw and stir completely earlier than utilizing. to whip extra air into it.

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Candy, and filled with coconutty taste this frosting is the most effective for spreading over muffins or cookies.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook dinner Time 0 minutes

Whole Time 15 minutes

Place butter in a big bowl and beat with an electrical mixer till gentle and fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
Add sugar, one cup at a time, and beat till mixed — will probably be thick. Beat in coconut extract.
Add coconut cream (guarantee it’s nicely stirred), a little bit at a time, and beat on excessive velocity till gentle and fluffy. Proceed including the coconut cream till desired texture and firmness is reached.
Add a pinch of salt (to your tastes) and beat till mixed.
Unfold or pipe onto cake or cupcakes.

This makes sufficient icing for a 9″ layer cake.
Coconut frosting will hold within the fridge for as much as one week.

Diet data supplied is an estimate and can differ primarily based on cooking strategies and types of components used.

Course Dessert

Delicacies American

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