Almond Butter Icing Recipe

This almond butter icing recipe is a simple and delicious way to impress your family and friends at any party. Almond butter icing is the perfect compliment to any cake or cupcake.

I’ve been making this almond butter frosting recipe for decades in my bakery, it’s a crowd favorite. This is the best almond-flavored frosting recipe, it’s easy and quick to prepare, and this rich almond butter icing is not your typical buttercream frosting or frosting, it contains eggs, sugar, almond paste, butter, cream, and vanilla extract.

Since this almond icing recipe contains eggs, it is cooked for a few minutes, the result is the best almond icing for cake decorating you will ever have.

Let’s make this homemade almond butter icing recipe!

Ingredients For Almond Butter Icing

• 1 Ib salted butter (2 cups), room temperature
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup almond paste, softened
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 egg yolks
• 2 large eggs

How To Make Almond Butter Icing?

1. Add the icing sugar, whole eggs, egg yolks, and almond paste, into a medium-sized bowl and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
2. Pour in the cream, vanilla extract, and almond extract and beat to combine.
3. Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and cook on medium-low heat for 5 minutes, then lower the heat and simmer for 4 minutes.
4. Strain the mixture into a bowl and refrigerator for 2 hours.
5. Remove from the fridge and beat in the butter until the icing is fluffy.
6. Transfer into an air-tight container. It will keep up to a week in the refrigerator.
7. Enjoy!

Almond Butter Icing Recipe

This almond butter icing recipe is a simple and delicious way to impress your family and friends at any party. Almond butter icing is the perfect compliment to any cake or cupcake.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 9 minutes mins

Chill Icing/Frosting 2 hours hrs

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 peolpe

Calories 100 kcal

Ingredients

  

• 1 Ib salted butter 2 cups, room temperature
• 3 cups icing sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup almond paste softened
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 egg yolks
• 2 large eggs

Instructions

 

• Add the icing sugar, whole eggs, egg yolks, and almond paste, into a medium-sized bowl and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
• Pour in the cream, vanilla extract, and almond extract and beat to combine.
• Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and cook on medium-low heat for 5 minutes, then lower the heat and simmer for 4 minutes.
• Strain the mixture into a bowl and refrigerator for 2 hours.
• Remove from the fridge and beat in the butter until the icing is fluffy.
• Transfer into an air-tight container. It will keep up to a week in the refrigerator.
• Enjoy!

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