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Peanut Butter Frosting is so fluffy, easy, and delicious that you will find yourself topping everything with it. Cupcakes, cookies, crackers the possibilities are truly endless.

Homemade Peanut Butter Frosting

Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

You may have noticed, that I am a big fan of condiments and dressings. As far as I’m concerned, frosting is the condiment of the baking world.

The perfect frosting is meant to balance the flavors and sweetness in addition to bringing a new texture to the dessert it is topping.

This Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting goes perfectly with anything chocolate. It is easily spreadable but also pipeable to create pillowing piles of frosting for the perfect accent to a cake.

This recipe will make enough frosting for a two-layer cake. For a pan of brownies or a 9×13 cake, you will want to halve the recipe.

Or, if you’re like my family, you’ll happily make the full recipe and then top graham crackers, cookies, and everything else with the leftover frosting.

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Thick and creamy homemade Peanut Butter Frosting

Homemade Frosting

Homemade Frosting is so easy to make, it’s almost easier than buying it at the store. Creamy, not-too-sweet, absolutely Perfect Fluffy Chocolate Frosting is truly the best chocolate frosting. (Check out the hundreds of 5-star reviews on that one for proof positive!)

Sweet, but not too sweet, Fresh Strawberry Frosting is versatile for all sorts of cakes and decorating purposes.

Creamy Coconut Frosting topping with a sprinkling of toasted coconut is what island dreams are made of in my world, especially when layered into that Pineapple Cake.

Fresh Blueberry Frosting is a light and creamy frosting, whipped into fluffy blueberry loveliness. A dollop of this frosting is sweet heaven on a cupcake. 

This Salted Caramel Frosting is a caramel lover’s dream come true. And for a classic that never disappoints, Cream Cheese Frosting is always a terrific option.

Perfect Peanut Butter Frosting

Peanut Butter Frosting Recipe

  1. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter. Beat with an electric mixer (with the wire whisk attachment for stand mixers) until thoroughly combined.
  2. Gradually add the powdered sugar and beat until fluffy. The frosting should be thick, creamy, and spreadable. If it becomes too thick to easily spread, add a tablespoon of cream or milk and beat again, adding additional liquid only if necessary.
Peanut Butter Frosting is the perfect brownie topping

Chocolate Peanut Butter Desserts

It is a given that chocolate peanut butter is one of our favorite dessert combinations at my house. This smooth and creamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge isn’t just for the holiday season.

Rich chocolate and peanut butter ice cream with chocolate and peanut butter chunks mixed throughout is a dream come true for any ice cream lover.

Chocolate Peanut Butter No-Bake Ritz Cookies are the sweet, salty, chocolatey snack you need in your life.

Peanut Butter Frosted Brownies
5 from 2 votes

Peanut Butter Frosting

Avatar photoMary Younkin
Peanut Butter Frosting is so fluffy, easy, and delicious that you will find yourself topping everything with it.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 32 (2) tablespoon servings, about 4 cups worth of frosting
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Ingredients 

  • 8 ounces cream cheese softened
  • ½ cup butter softened
  • cup creamy peanut butter
  • 4 cups powdered sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons heavy cream or milk only as needed

Instructions 

  • In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter. Beat with an electric mixer (with the wire whisk attachment for stand mixers) until thoroughly combined.
  • Gradually add the powdered sugar and beat until fluffy. The frosting should be thick, creamy, and spreadable. If it becomes too thick to easily spread, add a tablespoon of cream or milk and beat again, adding additional liquid only if necessary.

Notes

This recipe will make enough frosting for a two-layer cake. For a pan of brownies or a 9×13 cake, you will want to halve the recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 141 kcal | Carbohydrates: 17 g | Protein: 2 g | Fat: 8 g | Saturated Fat: 4 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3 g | Trans Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 15 mg | Sodium: 69 mg | Potassium: 42 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 16 g | Vitamin A: 185 IU | Calcium: 11 mg | Iron: 1 mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Homemade Peanut Butter Frosting

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4 Comments

  1. Sandra In Phx says:

    This is THE BEST Peanut Butter Frosting EVER! Seriously. It’s not overly sweet and not overwhelmingly peanut buttery. It’s the PERFECT combination! It was delicious even when I put it on brownies made from a box! My non-peanut butter loving daughter loved it, so you KNOW it was a hit!5 stars

    1. Mary Younkin says:

      Sandra – YES!! Love when a recipe gets rave reviews from the family.

  2. NaTasha Boyd says:

    Super easy and perfect flavor ratio!5 stars

    1. Mary Younkin says:

      I’m so glad it’s a hit!