Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
Posted May 22, 2023, Updated Jul 05, 2024
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This strawberry buttercream frosting is easy to make with 5 ingredients in 5 minutes. Strawberry frosting is made with real blended strawberries and tastes amazing on your favorite cakes, cupcakes and cookies.
This strawberry frosting recipe is so easy to make and so delicious.
Real strawberries are blended in a high-powered blender until they are smooth (I recommend a Vitamix).
Then, the puree is combined with butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar and beaten to perfection.
Use it on top of your favorite cakes, cookies, and of course, strawberry cupcakes, or use it as a filling!
Strawberry Frosting Recipe: Ingredients & Substitutions
- Strawberries. Fresh strawberries are the best choice. However, you can use frozen strawberries. Just be sure to thaw them completely and drain out any excess water.
- Salted butter. unsalted butter works well in place of salted butter.
- Vanilla extract. the seeds of 1 vanilla bean or vanilla bean paste are good substitutes.
- Fine sea salt: just a pinch of salt brings out the flavor of the strawberry frosting!
- Powdered sugar. You can make your own refined-sugar free powdered sugar.
How to Make Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
We’ll walk through this strawberry frosting recipe step-by-step. As always, we’ve provided a video for you to help ensure your success as well!
Begin by making the strawberry puree to flavor and color the frosting! To do this, put the strawberries in the container of a high-power blender and blend until smooth. Set aside.
Then, in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large bowl with a handheld mixer, beat together the butter, strawberry puree, vanilla, sea salt and 1 cup powdered sugar until smooth.
Next, add the remaining powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until you reach your desired consistency.
Frosting Consistency
You can choose the consistency of your frosting. Less powdered sugar will make it less firm, and perfect for a cake filling.
Adding more powdered sugar will make it thicker and firmer so it holds up to piping!
Serve
Here are some suggested uses for this strawberry buttercream frosting recipe:
- Use it as a cake filling inside chocolate cake or yellow cake!
- It makes a delicious frosting on top of cupcakes as well, try it on these: chocolate cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes, funfetti cupcakes and of course, strawberry cupcakes.
- Slather it on top of this homemade angel food cake, the best chocolate brownies, sugar cookies, etc.
Store/Freeze
Store leftover strawberry buttercream frosting in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or freezer for up to 2 months. I often freeze it in the piping bag, just be sure to remove the metal tip.
Let the frosting come to room temperature before using. Make sure to be patient and do not microwave the frosting.
Strawberry Frosting Recipe FAQs
Yes, this recipe is easily doubled to frost or fill a large cake.
Yes. Making your own powdered sugar is very easy. You can follow this healthy powdered sugar recipe (which uses coconut sugar) and use any granulated sugar you’d prefer.
Yes, just be sure to thaw and drain out the excess water first.
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Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup strawberries (3 oz)
- ½ cup salted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- 4-5 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Put the strawberries in the container of a high-power blender and blend until smooth (I suggest using a small blending container). Set aside.
- In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large bowl with a handheld mixer, beat together the butter, strawberry puree, vanilla, sea salt and 1 cup powdered sugar until smooth.
- Add remaining powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until you reach your desired consistency.
- Use to frost your favorite cakes, cookies, etc. I suggest these strawberry cupcakes!
Video
Notes
- Strawberries. Fresh strawberries are the best choice. However, you can use frozen strawberries. Just be sure to thaw them completely and drain out any excess water.
- Salted butter. unsalted butter works well in place of salted butter.
- Vanilla extract. the seeds of 1 vanilla bean or vanilla bean paste are good substitutes.
- Fine sea salt: just a pinch of salt brings out the flavor of the strawberry frosting!
- Powdered sugar. You can make your own refined-sugar free powdered sugar.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Amazing strawberry flavor! Made this frosting for a layered vanilla cake while watching the Barbie movie. Nice pink color & great taste. Will make again. Even my husband (who is a deserts should be chocolate & pb guy) enjoyed it.
I am 100% with your husband, but also adore this recipe! Love the idea of using it for a barbie theme!
Made this recipe as mini strawberry loaves (recipe made 8). Did some fancy piping with the frosting. Really delicious and looked great!