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Top your next dessert with this creamy, fruity, fluffy Raspberry Frosting! It is easy to make and complements vanilla cake, chocolate cake, and more!
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Create a delicious frosting with fresh ingredients and enhance your next dessert. The flavors of the cream cheese, raspberry jam, and vanilla mingle in the best way to make your frosting taste perfect! Raspberry flavor tastes wonderful on everything from sugar cookies to sheet cakes. Your vanilla cupcakes will never be the same! Decorate with fresh berries, freeze-dried raspberries, raspberry sauce, or just sprinkles– you can’t lose with this frosting.
Ingredients in Raspberry Frosting
- Cream Cheese
- Butter
- Raspberry Jam
- Vanilla Extract or Almond Extract
- Powdered Sugar
- Gel Food Coloring (optional)
How to Use Raspberry Frosting
Techniques
- Piping bag- Fill a piping bag with frosting. To do this, place a tall glass on the counter and put your piping bag inside. Fill with frosting about 2/3 of the way full, you don’t want too much frosting. You are ready to decorate! Hold the middle of the bag and to not apply too much pressure. If you are using tips, these will determine what decoration you make on your cake, cupcake, or cookie. Don’t squeeze too hard!
- Spatula- You can use a spatula on a cake with your frosting to make a crumb coat. You do this by using the flat side of the spatula to add a thin layer of icing. This seals in any crumbs. You can also just ice a cake with a spatula. Spread the icing out to cover the cake. This makes a cute, rustic look.
- Dipping- You can melt your raspberry frosting for about 20 seconds in the microwave, stirring often, to create a melty soup-like texture. With this, you can dip cookies into it, making thin, even application. Just let them dry.
Types of Desserts used with Frosting
- Cakes
- Cookies
- Cupcakes
- Cake pops
Storing and Using Leftover Frosting
If you want to store your frosting, store in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to a week. When you are ready to use it again, leave it on the counter to come to room temperature. When it’s ready, put it in a bowl and beat it with your mixer again until it comes to your desired consistency.
Recipe Tip
This frosting on its own is a pale pink color, but with just a drop of gel food coloring you can bump up the pink color without changing the texture!
Frequently Asked Questions
Like a lot of frosting recipes, you’ll have to put it in the fridge when you’re done. This means that the next day, you’ll have hard frosting you are trying to work with.
They say if you are trying to save time, it is always better to make the cake ahead of time and the frosting the day of.
Yes, but you can remove it from the fridge, let it come to room temperature, add to the bowl of a stand mixer, add the paddle attachment, and beat until it is back to the desired consistency.
Our raspberry frosting contains cream cheese, butter, raspberry jam, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar. It makes a pretty pink and sweet frosting perfect for cupcakes and cookies.
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How to Make Raspberry Frosting
Raspberry Frosting
Equipment
- Electric Mixer
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/3 cup raspberry jam use seedless for a smoother frosting
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 1 drop red gel food coloring optional
Instructions
- In a stand mixer, mix the cream cheese and butter together until smooth.
- Add raspberry jam and vanilla extract. Mix until combined.
- Add powdered sugar one cup at a time and mix until fully incorporated. The frosting should have semi-still peaks. If it gets too thick, add a little milk. If it is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
- Optional: For a brighter pink color, add 1 drop of red gel food coloring and mix to combine.
