This is a fantastic way to add color to your Valentine’s Day baking without using any more harsh ingredients! And it gives a cake with a chocolate or vanilla foundation an extra-brilliant flavor! Voila! Without any additional chemicals or harsh components, you have a deliciously colorful icing! Try blueberries, avocado, raspberries, blackberries, or anything else for varied colors!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) package confectioners’ sugar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 6 strawberries, pureed, or more to taste
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Beat confectioners’ sugar, butter, strawberry puree, and vanilla extract together in the bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand-held mixer, gradually increasing speed to reach high, until smooth.
- Softening the butter first generally makes the mixing process more simple.
- If you desire a thicker icing add less puree or more sugar. One trick I tried was using a little xanthan gum, about a teaspoon.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 163 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Cholesterol | 15 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 41 mg |
| Sugars | 28 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
After reading the comments, I used less purée to start and added more as I went to achieve the desired consistency. Delish!!
Very easy, and delicious! My family loved this frosting on chocolate cupcakes so much, they were really impressed by the strawberry flavor! It’s unusual to have frosting with such nice flavor, and it was pink enough to satisfy my daughter’s demand for pink frosting for her 3rd birthday.
The flavor was amazing, the whole family loved it but the texture was not what I expected. It was a little “liquidy”.
It’s very tasty but the shade of pink is a little to light and it’s only slightly runny
This is a pretty good frosting, doesn’t have a really strong berry flavor though. I have made it with rasperries and added lemon and that is really good too.
this is so tasty its like a soft and sugary at the same time….. itd delicious
Unfortunately, I made this for our daughter’s first birthday cake and it was a disaster. The color was a pretty shade of pink but that’s about all it had going for it. I’ve made cakes and frosting many times and never had one turn out so horribly. It was extremely runny, even after putting it in the fridge for a while to firm up. It also tasted too much like powdered sugar. Incidentally, I had meant to make the other strawberry frosting on this site but had this one pulled up by accident.
Really tasty! Not just blah sugar taste like most packaged frostings.
Very fresh tasting and it produced a lovely natural color. It was a bit on the runny side but it worked well with the brownies I made it for because they soaked it up and it really enhanced the chocolate. I can’t wait to try the other fruit suggestions.
I followed the directions exactly, but it turned out to be very runny. I put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes, and it was a little better. Next time I will use less then 6 strawberries. Sorry.
Nice! I can’t wait to try the avocado green. I put the strawberries in the blender to puree. This calls for about 2 cups of sugar.
This is a delicious, natural tasting strawberry frosting, it tastes so fresh, very good! I made recipe exactly as written, turned out great!
This frosting was the BEST I made some for my daughters and they almost ate all of it!
This is one of the most delicious frostings I have ever made! Each person I served it to loved the flavor. The consistency is perfect, and the leftover cake with this yummy frosting held up in the frig overnight.
This is exactly what I was looking for! It’s delicious, pretty, and all natural!