The Secret To Perfect Honey Buttercream Frosting
The secret to honey buttercream frosting is sour cream! Sour cream thickens the frosting without adding extra powdered sugar, cuts the sweetness, and adds a tangy zing. It's a simple but powerful fix that I wish I had thought of years ago.
Honey Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Below, you'll find my honey buttercream frosting recipe. It goes with most any cupcake and is a particularly nice fit for any fall-flavored cupcake.
Yield: Enough frosting to cover 12 cupcakes with a small swirl
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup full-fat sour cream
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, beat butter for three minutes with an electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy.
- Mix in powdered sugar a little bit at a time until fully combined.
- Mix in honey and sour cream until combined.
- Spread or pipe onto cooled cupcakes.
Yum! I've never had honey buttercream before
ReplyDeleteI look forward to trying this and wonder, do you think it would work to make a maple buttercream with the same recipe only using maple syrup?
ReplyDeleteYes - I think it would work really well.
DeleteExcited to have kiddo try this one! THANKS!
ReplyDeleteYour timing couldn't have been better, because I just came across some vegan honey and am dying to use it. A honey buttercream that actually tastes like honey and isn't terribly drippy sounds almost too good to be true!
ReplyDeletevegan honey?? isn't that an oxymoron?
DeleteHannah forgot her quotation marks around "honey", right after she forgot to check the ingredients on her vegan "honey". It's probably highly processed agave, or worse, high fructose corn syrup.
DeleteWould yogurt work? I'm more likely to have yogurt on hand, and I don't like buying a whole thing of sour cream just for one recipe
ReplyDeleteI think Greek yogurt would work just fine.
Deletethis is great! thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this recipe ... I'm looking forward to giving it a try!
ReplyDeleteYou must try the vanilla honey buttercream recipe from Baked Explorations Aunt Sassy cake!!!
ReplyDeleteIt is light, fluffy, not overly sweet and the honey flavor is so good.
Pam
definitely plan to try this sour cream trick soon!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnother gem of an idea.....who doesn't LOVE honey?! The added secret of sour cream is genius...thank you! Definitely going to make soon. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love these cupcakes, they looks so delicates.
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Wish there was a way to do this type of frosting without powdered sugar. All I can seem to get here in Toronto has corn starch in it, and with a maize allergy in the house, that's a no-go. :-\
ReplyDeleteI use baker's sugar because I don't like the taste of powered sugar. It's super fine so it doesn't end up grainy like table sugar would. Made this recipe today with the baker's sugar and it came out great!
Deletecant you just make your own powder sugar by putting regular sugar in the food processor? i know they put the corn starch in it to keep it from becoming a solid mas.but if your using it right away i dont think its a problem.
DeleteI just made this and the frosting never thickened :/ It got soupy and never recovered... Any thoughts?
ReplyDeleteOh no! I just noticed that I didn't specify full-fat sour cream. Maybe it's because you used low-fat?
DeleteNope, I used full-fat...
DeleteI made it again tonight and I think the problem might be the order that I had the steps. I followed my own directions and ended up with something soupy. I felt awful! I'm so sorry! I updated the recipe to show the way that I found that works. Butter and powdered sugar and then honey and sour cream.
DeleteI love honey and this looks awesome! Can't wait to try it!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your tips and this incredibly yummy recipe! Can't wait to try it!
ReplyDeleteThis frosting is FABULOUS! I wanted something unusual, but crowd pleasing to bring to the family holiday party! I baked blueberry cream cheese cupcakes to go with the honey buttercream, and it has recieved rave reviews from my husband and two friends! It was so easy to make and it piped beautifully! I'm hoping this will put to rest the newlywed cooking jokes ;) Best holiday wishes to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteJust made this frosting for some BC Butter Pecan cupcakes. Very good! I just wish it would have held up better for piping. Would adding some corn starch help? The honey and sour cream are a bit out of my comfort zone to try adding other ingredients into the mix.
ReplyDeleteI just made this to test it out, as I just tried honey cream cheese frosting and was not impressed. This was FANTASTIC!
ReplyDeleteMy sister-in-law loves lemon. So I made lemon cupcakes with lemon creme filling. Found this and had to try it as the baby shower theme baby bee! Everyone loved it! It is truly amazing flavor, not to sweet but just sweet enough for the very tart lemon! I think I will be using your recipes first in the future!! thank you so much!
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