Pumpkin Pie Spice Buttercream Frosting is the perfect blend of warm fall spices in a creamy buttery frosting! This homemade buttercream frosting made without pumpkin puree will lend a taste of fall to your favorite desserts!
Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting Recipe
Hooray Hooray! Pumpkin Spice season has arrived! Are you as happy as I am?
Everyone loves pumpkin pie spice and now you can have the perfect blend of warm fall spices in a creamy buttery pumpkin spice icing!
And now you can also make your pumpkin spice frosting without pumpkin puree. Basic ingredients flavored with pumpkin pie spice will do the trick!
Pumpkin Pie Spice Buttercream Frosting is a homemade pumpkin pie spice frosting recipe that will be the crowning glory on your next cupcake, cake, cookie, muffin. The possibilities are endless!
Gosh darn, I’m even going to add a dollop of pumpkin buttercream frosting on top of my pancakes this weekend, oh yes I am!
Honestly, this pumpkin icing is so easy to make and tastes so delicious too.
Chocolate cupcakes and pumpkin frosting make the ideal flavor combination. A vanilla layer cake will take on the warm spices of this homemade buttercream too.
You just can't go wrong this season with such an easy frosting recipe that's oh so delicious.
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How to make pumpkin frosting
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- With mixer on medium-high speed beat butter until smooth and creamy.
- Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually add confectioners’ sugar and pumpkin pie spice, beating until blended.
- Add milk and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Be sure that your butter is at room temperature for easy blending
- Measure your confectioners’ sugar correctly and either spoon it into your measuring cups and level with the flat end of a knife of use a food scale and weigh it out
- Don’t scoop your measuring cup into the confectioners’ sugar or you will be packing the sugar into the measuring cup and will have too much sugar for the recipe
- Want more pumpkin flavor? Beat in a tablespoon or two of pumpkin puree! Be careful not to add too much though!
Substitutions
- You can certainly use store bought pumpkin pie spice in place of my homemade pumpkin spice recipe
- You can substitute butter flavored Crisco for half of the butter
- Half and half or heavy cream can always be substituted for the milk. You just might want to add an extra teaspoon or more to get the consistency you want
Ingredients for pumpkin buttercream
- butter
- confectioners’ sugar
- pumpkin pie spice
- milk
- vanilla extract
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Pumpkin Spice Recipes
Are you head over heels about pumpkin pie spice? Me too! that's why I created more pumpkin spice recipes, just for you, so you can have pumpkin spice morning, noon and night!
Let's begin with the basics, shall we? With just a few ingredients in the perfect proportions, you can make your own Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice whenever you need some! Because, after all, isn't it sometimes hard to find and oh so expensive?
Super moist, fragrant with pumpkin pie spice & studded with creamy chunks of chocolate, Chocolate Chunk Pumpkin Bread is a delicious way to welcome in fall!
Salted Caramel Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Bars is an impressive and easy dessert recipe. Every bite of creamy pumpkin cheesecake is kissed by the warm holiday flavor of pumpkin pie spice and elevated to a level of bliss with a buttery cinnamon graham crust!
Cheesecake Pumpkin Pie is a cheesecake within a pie so you can have your cheesecake and eat your pie too! And best of all you can do it all in one bite! A creamy vanilla cheesecake layer is surrounded by a flaky pie crust and smothered by a spiced pumpkin pie layer.
When National Pancake Day meets Pumpkin Spice season, Pumpkin Spice Pancakes, an easy homemade pancakes recipe seasoned with pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice, is born! Delicious for breakfast or as for breakfast for dinner, Pumpkin Spice Pancakes are lightened with seltzer!
Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature
- 1 lb. confectioners’ sugar
- 2 Tbs. pumpkin pie spice
- 2 Tbs. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- With mixer on medium-high speed beat butter until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes.
- Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually add confectioners’ sugar and pumpkin pie spice, beating until blended.
- Add milk and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes, occasionally scraping sides of bowl.
Notes
- Be sure that your butter is at room temperature for easy blending
- Measure your confectioners’ sugar correctly and either spoon it into your measuring cups and level with the flat end of a knife of use a food scale and weigh it out
- Be mindful not to scoop your measuring cup into the confectioners’ sugar or you will be packing the sugar into the measuring cup and will have too much sugar for the recipe
- You can certainly use store bought pumpkin pie spice in place of my homemade pumpkin spice recipe
- You can substitute butter flavored Crisco for half of the butter
- Half and half or heavy cream can always be substituted for the milk. You just might want to add an extra teaspoon or more to get the consistency you want
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