You can easily elevate store-bought canned frosting to make it taste homemade with just one added ingredient.
Why We Love This Technique
1. Time-Saving Convenience – Store-bought frosting provides a quick and hassle-free solution, saving valuable time during busy baking sessions. Its ready-made ingredients eliminate the need for extensive preparation, allowing for efficient and convenient use.
2. Consistent Texture and Quality – Commercially prepared frostings often maintain a consistent texture and quality, ensuring a smooth and reliable result. This consistency can be particularly beneficial for those who may face challenges achieving the same level of perfection with homemade frostings.
3. Customizable Flavors with Ease – While store-bought frosting offers convenience, the ability to tweak and enhance its flavor allows for a personalized touch. By adding simple ingredients like extracts or spices, you can effortlessly transform the store-bought variety into a unique and delicious homemade-style creation.
2 Ingredients
1 can store-bought chocolate frosting
2 tbsp room temperature cream cheese (I recommend using the “whipped” frosting.)
Instructions
Using a hand-mixer or stand-mixer, whip cream cheese until smooth.
Add 1 can of store-bought frosting and continue to whip until fully incorporated with a smooth and creamy texture and glossy appearance.
Elevate the flavor of canned frosting by adding a personal touch. Incorporate a splash of vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, or a dollop of creamy peanut butter to enhance the taste and give it a homemade, gourmet twist.
Experiment with small additions and adjustments until you achieve the perfect customized flavor to complement your baked treats.
8ozblock of room-temperature cream cheese (I recommend using “whipped” frosting.)
Instructions
Using a hand-mixer or stand-mixer, whip cream cheese until smooth.
Add 1 can of store-bought frosting and continueto whip until fully incorporated with a smooth and creamy texture and glossyappearance.
Notes
Krazy Kitchen Mom Tips
Elevate the flavor of canned frosting by adding a personal touch. Incorporate a splash of vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, or a dollop of creamy peanut butter to enhance the taste and give it a homemade, gourmet twist.
Experiment with small additions and adjustments until you achieve the perfect customized flavor to complement your baked treats.
If you want to make store-bought frosting better, try improving the flavor with 1 teaspoon of flavored syrup, such as caramel, hazelnut, or mango. To make the frosting richer, add 8 ounces of cream cheese and blend it in using an electric mixer.
For a (16-ounce) tub of frosting, anywhere from ½ cup to 1 cup of crunchy additions will do the trick. Toasted nuts, coconut flakes, chocolate chips or chunks, halvah, and toffee will all add a fun new dimension of flavor. Stir in chopped up canned pineapple or fresh berries for an extra fruity kick.
But, there are ways to make it more interesting; one such way is to hit it with a shot of vinegar. Don't worry, the icing won't taste sour or like vinegar at all, but the acid will help balance out the sweetness, making it taste more pleasant. Even better, it will make the icing stronger and more durable.
Thicken it with powdered sugar: Need frosting that can be piped onto a cake? Thicken store-bought frosting by mixing in powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the desired consistency is reached. Whip it until fluffy: To make frosting fluffy, it needs to be aerated.
You can enrich store-bought frosting by adding one 8-ounce package of cream cheese to one can of frosting. Make sure the frosting is at room temperature, and take the cream cheese out of the refrigerator 30 to 60 minutes ahead of time. The cheese should be softened, but still cold.
It turns out that mixing softened butter into your canned frosting can work wonders to upgrade its flavor, offsetting that store-bought taste and creating a silky, rich, and delicious topping.
Although many do so to avoid cracks and to achieve a smooth appearance, I find just the tiniest bit — about 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon — also curbs the sweetness, allowing the wonderfully creamy mouth-feel of the icing to truly shine.
Be careful when doing this though, as adding too much additional confectioners' sugar to the runny icing can alter the taste of your frosting, making it too sweet. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of milk at a time, making sure to whisk or mix with an electric mixer in between each tablespoon to check the consistency.
"Regular sugar has a larger crystal size than powdered sugar," he explains. "This means, cup for cup, there would be more sugar in a cup of powdered sugar than in a cup of regular sugar." In addition to inconsistent measurements, regular sugar won't dissolve and mix as well into recipes like frosting and icing.
Empty the canned frosting into a large mixing bowl. Whip the frosting using an electric mixer (either hand mixer or stand mixer) for 2 to 3 minutes until fluffy and doubled in size. It's ready! Decorate twice as many cupcakes, cakes, and cookies with ease thanks to this canned frosting hack.
Scoop the frosting out of the can, add 1–2 tsp of vanilla, then take a whisk or hand-mixer to it.Add more water or milk a little bit at a time until you have your desired consistency.
For a rich and decadent frosting, try adding semi-solid flavorings such as peanut butter, caramel topping, jams, ganache or coconut cream. These semi-solid ingredients can change the consistency of your buttercream depending on what you add, so have some extra milk and confectioners' sugar on hand, just in case.
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