{"id":2972,"date":"2020-01-16T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thekitchenmagpie.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2024-11-23T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:58:18","slug":"buttercream-icing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thekitchenmagpie.com\/buttercream-icing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Buttercream Frosting Recipe. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is THE original salted buttercream frosting recipe that went viral and has been shared by hundreds of thousands of people – and this recipe has been read tens of millions of times! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was my very first viral recipe here on The Kitchen Magpie! If you like this, you should try my Lemon Buttercream Frosting<\/a> recipe. This recipe is the best thanks to sweet and salty mixing together!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first wrote this recipe 9 years ago, no one was using salted butter in their frostings – or at least there weren’t any posted online that I could find.This recipe made it in to my cookbook,<\/a> that’s how amazing it is! This recipe was one of the first on my website and has been viewed by tens of millions of people over the years! Isn’t that crazy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This buttercream icing is still is amazing, melt in your mouth, whippy, ultimate swirly cupcake worthy. It was fantastic on the homemade chocolate cake I made to go with it the very first time I whipped it up. The cake was dense and moist, and paired with a light as air buttercream icing… heaven. Angels dancing on your taste buds. I’ve tried it on every cupcake that you can imagine and it’s even amazing on vanilla. Salty vanilla icing on a vanilla cupcake is heaven for vanilla lovers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please go and have a read of my Buttercream Icing FAQ<\/a> which answers a lot of the questions about this recipe asked in the hundreds of comments on this post below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most important is How to Fix Broken Buttercream<\/a>, that’s a whole post in itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frosting Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are four basic ingredients for this buttercream frosting and I have kept it simple and straightforward for years now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n