Strawberry Buttercream – An easy and beautiful pink frosting filled with fresh strawberries. Perfect on cake, cupcakes, brownies and more!
Oh, hi! It’s just me, bringing you a bowl overflowing with swirly pink frosting. Wouldn’t you love to drag a spoon right through that deliciousness up there? Strawberry Buttercream frosting is what spring and summer dreams are made of. Let’s put it on anything and everything. K?
Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
This Strawberry Buttercream became a regular in our dessert rotation once our daughter decided at the ripe age of 2 that she was obsessed with all things PINK! Since she has a summer birthday I have made it a tradition of always serving Strawberry Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting at her birthday celebrations.
This is the perfect way to make a pretty pink frosting without any food coloring. Yep, you read that right – no food coloring. Real strawberries bring the beautiful pink color to our frosting. And every bite is bursting with the flavor of sweet fresh strawberries.
Strawberry Buttercream
- Butter
- Powdered Sugar
- Fresh Strawberry Puree
- Strawberry Jam
- Vanilla extract
Now to the big question… What should we put this Strawberry Buttercream Frosting on?
Strawberry Cupcakes
Brownies
Chocolate Cupcakes
Sugar Cookies
Vanilla Cake or Cupcakes (box mix or homemade)
And more!
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Strawberry Buttercream
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened, 12 tablespoons
- 3 cups powdered sugar sifted if lumpy, plus more if needed
- 3 tablespoons fresh strawberry puree see note
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 generous tablespoon strawberry jam
Instructions
- With a hand mixer, or stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter for 2 minutes, until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the bowl and the beater as necessary. Add the powdered sugar, 1/2 a cup at a time, beating until combined.
- Add puree, vanilla extract and jam, and beat on medium speed until fully combined, being sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl and beater as needed. If necessary, adjust the consistency by adding more powdered sugar to thicken, or more strawberry puree to thin it out. Place in a piping bag, or use an offset spatula to frost cake or cupcakes.
Recipe Notes
To make fresh strawberry puree: Place about 5 chopped strawberries in a food processor (preferably a mini food processor) and blend until pureed.
What a beautiful colour that buttercream is. I would be so tempted to just eat it all out of the bowl.
Omg I wish I could reach into my screen and grab this, it looks to die for!
I want to grab a big spoonful and just eat the frosting :-).
You can’t go wrong with a good buttercream, but I’m LOVING the addition of fresh strawberries in this recipe. So perfect for spring!
Holy moly I want to eat this like ice cream! haha! 😀 I totally am digging that there’s fresh strawberries and jam as well! Crazy flavour! 😀
It’s not ice cream it’s buttercream frosting
This strawberry buttercream looks luxuriously rich, smooth, creamy and flavorful. Thanks for this amazing recipe!
OMG this frosting is so delicious and fresh!! I used it to fill French macarons and they are amazing!
Yay! It’s one of my favorite frostings. Great idea to put it in a macaron. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello! I was wondering if you could use butter flavoring instead of the soft butter? I have made my cupcakes, but was wondering, because I use the Wilton butter flavoring in my buttercream icing recipe.
Thank you!!
Sorry for the late reply. You can add butter flavoring, but you will still need actual butter to make the frosting.
This is a great easy recipe. I added strawberry preserves and didn’t puree them very long and got nice pieces of strawberry in my frosting. I than topped my cheesecake making my first cheesecake with strawberries and frosting instead of whipped cream. Omg it is so good. I’m creating a frosted cheesecake line. List of coming attractions frosted with: Blueberry, Strawberry, Raspberry, Lemon, Peach, and any other flavor!
This recipe is divine! And so easy to make. It tastes like strawberry ice cream at room temp. Love it! I used this buttercream to frost a chocolate cake. Thank you!
I’m glad that you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by.
Worst recipe ever Way too Sweet! Will Never make it again!