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Easy Vegan Buttercream Frosting (For Cakes & Cupcakes) #veganrecipes #frosting
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May 3, 2024
This vegan buttercream frosting is, rich, creamy, easy to make, and perfect with any cake or cupcake! Follow along with the recipe here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/vegan-buttercream-frosting/ Or search all my vegan recipes here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/all-recipes/
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Hello and welcome back. I am Steph and today we are going to make my vegan buttercream frosting
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recipe. It's a really really simple recipe but also really delicious so let's get right into it
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All right so for this recipe we're going to use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment
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or you could also use an electric hand mixer and I am adding in 340 grams or one and a half cups
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of the vegan butter that we made in the last video but you could also use earth balance
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Miyoko's, just make sure you use a stick butter and not a spread. And this vegan butter has also
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been sitting out of the refrigerator for an hour or so to soften so when we start mixing here it
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is nice and creamy and you just want to mix until you have a smooth consistency like this
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Next I'm going to sift six cups or 800 grams of powdered sugar to make sure there aren't any
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clumps in there and I'm just going to add one cup at a time of this powdered sugar into the
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vegan butter and start mixing. You want to start it off on a low speed and then increase the speed
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slowly because if you start too quickly you're just going to kick your powdered sugar out of the
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bowl. And anytime you need to you can just stop the mixer use a spatula to scrape down the sides
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of the bowl. And I will just repeat all of that with remaining powdered sugar one cup at a time
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until we have a nice thick mixture. Okay so next I'm adding in two teaspoons of vanilla extract
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and half a teaspoon of salt. And yes my butter is salted and I'm adding more salt because
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there's not quite enough salt in the butter to really balance out that sweetness and bring out
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the buttery flavor. You could also add some vegan food coloring here if you want to
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Gel food coloring is great if you can get it but I have also used the liquid food coloring from
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Whole Foods with no problems. Just keep an eye on your consistency. You could skip the cashew cream
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or add more powdered sugar if you need to to get the right consistency. Next I'm adding some cashew
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cream here. This is leftover from when I made the vegan butter and I'm starting with just one
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tablespoon. If you don't have any extra cashew cream laying around and you don't want to make it
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you could also use some unsweetened non-dairy milk but make sure you start with a lot less of it
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because it is going to be significantly thinner. But I personally really like using cashew cream
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here because it is so thick and it's not as easy to accidentally add too much. One thing I want to
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point out with this recipe is you don't need to follow the measurements too closely with the sugar
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and the cream because all vegan butters are a little bit different. So instead of going directly
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off the measurements I think the best practice is to just judge by the texture. You want to make
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sure that your frosting is stiff enough for whatever you're using it for. So frosting for a
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layer cake should be a little thicker than a cupcake frosting because it needs to support the
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weight of the cake. So use your judgment to get the right consistency. If it's too thin add some
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more powdered sugar. If it's too thick add some more cashew cream or non-dairy milk. And that
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tablespoon wasn't quite enough to get the consistency I want so I'll just add a little more
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and I am happy with this consistency now. So I'm just going to finish it off by
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turning the mixer up to a high speed to get it nice and fluffy
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All right my vegan buttercream frosting is finished. I am going to put it in the refrigerator
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until my cupcakes are ready and cooled but that is going to be the next video. So for now
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we are all finished. Thank you so much for being here with me and I'll see you in the next one
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