How to make the most delicious Cinnamon Buttercream that pairs perfectly with your Banana Bread Baking mix for on top of a banana bread loaf, banana muffins or a banana cake for a twist on a birthday cake.
Ingredients:
🧁 100g of room temp butter
🧁 200g of Soft Icing Mixture (the pink one from the CSR brand)
🧁 1 tsp of Vanilla
🧁 1.5 tsp Milk
🧁 3/4 of a teaspoon of Ground Cinnamon (not cinnamon sugar)
We follow our buttercream instructions on how to make our cinnamon buttercream:
- Take your butter out of the fridge and let it come to room temperature
- Once the butter is room temp chop into small pieces and add it into your stand mixer and mix on medium – high speed for 3 minutes until the butter is light in colour and looks smooth. Scrape down the bowl halfway and again once it is finished mixing so the butter isn’t sticking to the bottom. This step is called ‘creaming the butter’
- Add your Icing mixture to your bowl in about 3 equal parts so you don’t get an icing explosion, mix for about 30 seconds after each addition before adding the next portion of icing
- Once the 3 parts are added, add your vanilla and milk (you can use any milk substitute or water if needed but it’s nicer with that dash of milk)
- Mix on medium speed for 1 minute, stop to scrape down the sides and base of the bowl again to make sure all the ingredients get mixed properly and nothing is stuck to the sides
- Mix on medium – high for at least 5 minutes and stop halfway to scrape the sides and base of the bowl
- You want the butter and icing sugar to be completely incorporated and mixing for at least five minutes. This step is essential to get the right flavour and perfect buttercream texture
- You will notice the buttercream become lighter in colour and it should have a perfectly balanced taste that’s not too sweet and not too buttery
- If you find any butter hasn’t incorporated properly just give it a mix with your spatula or spoon, it could just be getting missed by your machine
- Before decorating make sure your baked goodies are completely cold, you don’t want even a little bit of warmth otherwise your icing will melt and start slipping off
