Best Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This recipe will become your new favorite frosting choice. With its creamy texture and sweet flavor, this Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting is sure to win over anyone who takes a bite.

This winning combination of Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting is sure to be the talk of any gathering.

The slightly sweet yet salty flavor of the peanut butter mingles perfectly with the creamy texture of cream cheese and creates an irresistible taste.

This peanut butter and cream cheese frosting is insanely delicious! You will find yourself using more spoons just so you can lick it!

You can use either Crunchy Peanut Butter or Smooth Peanut Butter depending on your taste.

This is a great recipe for plain-flavoured cupcakes!  Use our recipe for Bulk Basic Muffins – and top with the Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting for something out of this world!

It is a big recipe; you can keep half in the fridge in an airtight container for a couple of days. It will cover 12 cupcakes if you pile it sky-high, around 20 standard or 2 x 24 cm cakes.

We used:

• Philidelphia Cream Cheese
• Bega Crunchy Peanut Butter

Best Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Recipe by Stay at Home Mum

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Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

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15

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

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Calories

120

kcal

Total time

10

minutes

A creamy, rich frosting combining peanut butter and cream cheese, perfect for cakes, cupcakes, and sweet treats.

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Ingredients

• 125 grams Butter (room temperature)

• 125 grams Cream Cheese (softened)

• 1 cup Peanut Butter

• 3 cups Icing Sugar

• 1/2 tsp Salt

• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

• 2 tbsp Milk

Directions

• How to Make Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting:
• Place the softened butter, peanut butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl and beat on high speed until pale and creamy.
• Turn the speed down to low and add ¼ of the sugar at a time, beating for about 30 seconds between additions.
• Beat for 3 – 4 minutes at high speed.
• Turn the speed down again and add vanilla extract and salt.
• Beat for about a minute.
• Add milk and mix on low speed until combine, turn up the speed and beat for another minute.
• Spread or pipe frosting onto completely cooled cupcakes or cake.

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Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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