Salted Caramel Buttercream
Easy and delicious salted caramel buttercream recipe
Ingredients
- 200 g Salted Butter
- 500 g Icing Sugar
- 140 g Salted Caramel
- 2 tsp Milk / Cream or Water 2 -4 tsp depending on consistency
Instructions
- Start by placing the softened butter in the bowl of your stand mixer. Set your mixer to a medium speed, and beat the butter to a smooth and creamy texture. This process is crucial to achieving the right consistency for your buttercream, so make sure there are no lumps, this will probably only take about a minute tops.
- Sift your icing sugar into a separate bowl to remove any lumps and then gradually add the powdered sugar to the creamed butter, add about half of the icing sugar at a time. Make sure to mix thoroughly after each addition. As the sugar incorporates, the mixture will become thicker, and stiffer.
- Time to add in your caramel, pop this in the mixer with your buttercream and give these a quick mix on a medium to high speed to fully mix together. Remember to stop the mixer and scrape down the sides and bottom to make sure everything gets properly mixed together.
- At this point, you now have your salted caramel buttercream and all you need to do is get the right consistency. To achieve the right consistency, you just need to add milk, cream or water, one teaspoon at a time, until you achieve the desired consistency. When you are trying to achieve the right consistency keep in mind that a slightly thinner buttercream is best for a crumb coat as this spreads better onto a cake, and stiffer buttercream works best for top coats of icing and piping decorations.