My father-in-law taught me how to make this wonderful pasta dish. When combined with ham and broccoli, crème fraiche is delicious. I sincerely hope you enjoy it.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 1 to 1 frosting cake |
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
- ⅓ cup milk
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mash instant coffee with the back of a spoon until powdery. Stir in cinnamon and salt. In a large bowl, beat the butter until smooth, then stir in spice mixture and vanilla. Alternately beat in confectioners’ sugar and milk until desired consistency is achieved.
Reviews
taste exactly as I wanted.. love the hint of cinnamon.
Five stars all the way on this one!! It was great — I made it for the nutmeg cake recipe on this site. This was really a fantastic icing that I am sure I will use many more times. It also seems very versatile and it would probably be great with any type of cake.
Made as written except dissolved instant espresso powder into 2T milk. Added about 1/4 t salt. Got the right consistency using only 2T milk, so add the milk until you get desired consistency. I think 2 t instant coffee would be a more pronounced flavor. If you like your frosting with a bit more coffee flavor, I think you could add the instant coffee until you get the desired result. Made enough to frost a 13X9 cake. Also beat frosting for several mins. at the end to get it light and fluffy. Put this on Nutmeg Cake from this site which was delicious!
Was amazing
This recipe in every way is so much better than store-bought frosting. I did follow another reviewer’s suggestion and added a couple teaspoons of hot water to the coffee and cinnamon spice mixture before adding it to the butter.
Too sweet.
Excellent. Esp on a deep chocolate cake.
I did dissolve coffee and cinnamon in a bit of hot water and used about a 1/2 cup less powdered sugar and just enough milk to reach desired consistency. Not grainy in my opinion. Very tasty. Just what I was looking for.
This was excellent! I used coconut milk since my husband is lactose intolerant and it was creamy and yummy! I put it on the simple coffee cake recipe on this website, made it special. Thank-you for this I will use it often 🙂
I made this icing pretty much according to the recipe, although I did dissolve the coffee in 1 tsp of water as suggested by other reviewers, and I added a bit more cinnamon. When I taste tested the icing, it was too sweet, but it worked well on the cake. Next time I make it I’ll probably add more coffee and/or cinnamon to counterbalance the sweetness.
This frosting was awesome , put on carrot cake , everyone loved it ,Thx
I liked the taste of the frosting, I had to double the recipe and added less milk. I wanted the frosting to be alittle thicker. I made cupcakes with caramel in the middle and was looking for a frosting with coffee in it. Thank you for posting this.
A Mexican Mocha is my favorite espresso drink … so after reading the other reviews, I doubled the instant coffee and cinnamon, dissolved it into the vanilla and a bit of the milk, then followed the recipe. Didn’t take all of the milk to reach spreading consistency. Because of doubling the spices, the color was a bit darker than the recipe picture, but lovely on the super dark coffee chocolate cake. I finished just in time for my husband to get home from dialysis. He’s the mocha cake junkie in the family. Licking the bowl was my reward! P.S. Next time I will increase this recipe by half … this spread a little thin on a 9″ two-layer cake.
I would make this again. I modified it a little . I used a good sized scoop of hot fudge topping (Sanders). I also added a couple of tablespoons of flour to cut the sweetness. I didn’t use vanilla, I used Kahlua instead. This is a recipe you can definitely experiment with – it turned out great!
Absolutely amazing. I made cupcakes out of a Devils Food cake mix and topped them with this. Delicious! I’m not even a chocolate cake fan. I’m a fan of cinnamon and coffee though and mixed with the chocolate…Starbucks watch out!!!
Delicious-made it with the Black Magic Cake on this site, will definitely make it again! Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe!
LOVE this. Paired with the black magic cake from this site and it was wonderful
I used 2 tsp of instant coffee to get more of the coffee flavor. Didn’t have any icing sugar,used granulated sugar with cornstarch.The other reviewers were right, 1/3 cup milk is too much, made it runny. It only thickened in the fridge. I will make it again,with less milk and see how it goes.
This was excellent. Doubled the recipe, which resulted in more than enough to frost a 9″ double layer chocolate cake. I increased the instant coffee and cinnamon by 50% and finely ground them together in a coffee grinder. I always sift the confectioners sugar, then measure. 2 cups becomes almost 3 cups after sifting, which might explain why 3 cups (unsifted) is too sweet.
Love this frosting on the Black Magic cake from this site.
OMG … this frosting is so delicious. I was making the Black Magic Cake (on this site) and wanted a frosting that would go with it. Man oh man, I made this and it was the hit at my Thanksgiving table. Everyone raved about this and I had made a ton of other desserts, but this cake/frosting went first. Delish!!!