Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting
Remember the recipe I posted a while back for salted caramel sauce? This frosting takes that to the next level. I like to make the sauce in a big batch and reserve some for topping ice cream and use some to create this mind-blowing salted caramel buttercream frosting. I usually use pair it with chocolate cake but I’ve been wanted to see how it works on spice cake or vanilla cake. If you experiment, let me know!
-Nicole S.
Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
- 3 cups of powered sugar (sifted at 2-3 times)
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup of salted caramel sauce (see recipe here)
Instructions
- Beat softened butter with a hand mixer until it gets fluffy.
- Add powered sugar a little at a time and beat with butter.
- Beat in salt.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Add one cup of room temperature salted caramel sauce and stir in.
- Refrigerate for 20 minutes. If it gets too cold and stiff leave it out for a few minutes and/or beat again for a minute or so.
