Name: Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature; 4 cups powdered sugar; 1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste; 6 teaspoons milk or heavy cream

This Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting can be made in about 15 minutes and only required 4 simple ingredients. Perfect for macarons, cakes and cupcakes!

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If you’re looking for a fantastic vanilla bean buttercream to use in your desserts you’ve come to the right post! This Vanilla Bean Buttercream is great for filling macarons, frosting cakes and decorating cupcakes!

What you’ll need for this Buttercream Frosting: (amounts below in recipe)

unsalted butter, room temperature
powdered sugar
vanilla bean paste
milk or heavy cream

If your’e looking for vanilla bean paste I’ve found it at Trader Joes and World Market before. If you want to order it online this is the Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Bean Paste that I love.

I use to make a lot of cakes when my god-daughters were younger and used my favorite cream cheese frosting for most of their cakes. While my cream cheese frosting is still a favorite, this Vanilla Bean Buttercream Frosting may have risen to the top of my list over the past few years.

I love it not only because it’s perfect on cake and cupcakes but also because it’s a great filling for homemade macarons, like these Pumpkin Spice Macarons!!

Aren’t those little vanilla bean speckles pretty?

If you’re looking to dive more into the world of making buttercream frosting, make sure to check out my friend Julianne’s post on BeyondFrosting.com – she’s got a ton of great information in her post about making buttercream.

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