The other night I was baking a cake for a dinner with my future in-laws and my parents. I had made a chocolate cake and was preparing a butter cream frosting. I love plain vanilla butter cream frosting, but for some reason I just felt like the cake needed something a little extra. I decided to add in a big scoop of cookie butter
to the frosting. The results were fantastic! And it got me thinking how a little change like that can make a big difference in easy recipes. Here are three ideas for spicing up your frosting.
Cookie butter frosting! It's got the perfect amount of cinnamon. Simply add cookie butter to homemade butter cream frosting. If you don't have a favorite butter cream frosting recipe yet check out these ideas. 
Nutella frosting! I doubt I'm the only one who regularly has Nutella on hand. 🙂 Add a scoop and you'll have a super unique chocolate frosting to spread on cakes or cupcakes.
Peanut butter frosting. Just add peanut butter. Easy. Obvious. Duh. This goes well with chocolate cake or you could make peanut butter and jelly cupcakes. Yum!
Do you have any favorite frosting mix-ins you'd like to share? What about jams and jellies? Happy baking! xo. Emma
Frosting Mixology
Updated: 1/8/13
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Yay! Cookie butter frosting! Can’t wait to give it a try 🙂
you know what is really good.. add marhmallow fluff and the mocha mix in from carnation.. and omg!!! its my best seller… 😉 or make kahlua and vodka pudding and add a little of it to the vanilla frosting!!!! again amazing!!!!
This looks so fun! I know a few people who would love to have nutella frosted cupcakes!
This looks amazing! I will have to try them all!
This makes me want to run out and make cupcakes right now! I have used pure nutella as icing several times and it has been a hit. I have never heard of cookie butter before though.
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I keep peanut butter and nutella. Nutella makes a wonderful hot chocolate. 🙂
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They look delicious!
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My kids would love this. The arrangement goes together well. I personally don’t like chocolate but I know three young ladies that do, lol
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looks yummmi…..
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I´ll do this next time 🙂 ♥
WOW. I have never seen cookie butter before but oh my goshhh I will hunt the seven seas for it! These cupcakes are making my mouth water. Eep.
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I’m making cupcakes for my upcoming wedding and these ideas are GREAT! Thank you!
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i JUST picked up a jar of cookie butter this weekend when i was in NYC (after hearing about it)…it is seriously the best thing in a jar ever. great idea to use it in frosting! so many awesome uses for it…i just finished having a snack of pretzels and cookie butter..the saltiness of the pretzels pairs nicely with the sweetness of the cookie butter. yummy!
WOW!! Those all look really yummy! I’ll have to try making them sometime, thanks for sharing!
~ Hanna
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Omg girls! it looks delicius I need to try it! thank you for inspiration;)
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Cookie Butter is THE BEST THING EVER. Me and my coworker eat it with Waffle Cookies all the time.
I work at Trader Joe’s and they give us a little heads up pf products to come and this year we are getting a crunchy cookie butter! – would love to see what you can make with that one 🙂
These cupcakes look fantastic! I will try to make peanut butter frosting tomorrow. Thank you! xxx
Ahhhh, cookie butter frosting sounds amazing! And I have yet to make a Nutella frosting, but LOVE Nutella. Clearly I need to get on that!