My Limoncello Buttercream Frosting brings two of my favorite things together, limoncello and frosting!
If you ask one of my fiends or family what I am good at baking they would certainly tell you, that I am good at adding booze to my sweet treats! I wish I had some wonderful story about how mixing booze and treats was simply a happy accident, but I honestly have no idea when or how it all started. Maybe that is a sign, that baking with booze will make you forget when you decided to start using booze in your baking recipes…
I am sure some of it, is simply because I prefer to use recipes as suggested guidelines, and not as steps to follow. There is a good chance one day I decided to make lemon frosting, but didn’t have lemons or lemon juice so I decided to just make limoncello frosting instead.
One of the down falls of my off the cuff cooking and baking is that I am rarely capable of recreating the exact recipe again. One recipe I am often asked the recipe for is my Limoncello Buttercream Frosting. So over the holiday weekend I decided not only would I make cupcakes with limoncello buttercream frosting, but I would also write down exactly how I did it, so I could finally share one of creations with my family, friends and all of you all!
- 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 cup butter (soft and cut into chunks)
- 1 teaspoon Limoncello
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoons whipping cream
- In a stand mixer using the whisk attachment mix the confectioners sugar with the butter on a low speed.
- Once sugar and butter is well combined you can up the speed to medium.
- Allow to mix for 2-3 minutes.
- Add Limoncello and Vanilla.
- Mix for one minute.
- Add whipping cream and allow to mix for an additional minute.
- If you find your frosting too thick to spread add more limoncello or whipping cream.
- If you find your frosting too runny add more confectioners sugar, 1 Tablespoon at a time.
The options for what to serve my limoncello buttercream frosting is quite endless. Most recently I used it as the frosting for a vanilla bean cupcake with a lemon curd and mascarpone filling. What would you serve limoncello buttercream frosting on?
I would love to hear from you…Tweet me @aiminghighwife with your favorite boozy sweet treat recipes!
Oh my goodness! These sound amazing! Boozy cupcakes are combining two of my favorite things! 😉