Fruity Pebbles Frosting – Sugar Spun Run

Fruity Pebbles frosting is enjoyable, fairly, and nostalgic! It’s additionally not too candy, so be happy to pipe it on cupcakes, unfold it over a batch of brownies, sandwich it between French macarons–no matter your candy tooth wishes!

Fruity Pebbles Frosting

I developed this cereal milk-infused frosting particularly for use as a filling for my fruity pebbles macarons (recipe coming very quickly, like, tomorrow), however after the primary style it was clear it wanted its personal area in my frostings library. Fruity pebble frosting is enjoyable, colourful, and barely sudden. Right here’s what’s to like:

Why you’ll like it:

• Distinctive and nostalgic. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill vanilla. The milk is infused with fruity pebble taste that’s potent and immediately recognizable.
• Subtly colourful with tiny specks of confetti-colored cereal (and you may bump up the vibrance with meals coloring, if you happen to’d like!) and so enjoyable for birthday truffles and children desserts.
• Not too candy! I take a novel method to at the moment’s recipe as a way to preserve it from being tooth-achingly candy… utilizing my white chocolate frosting as the bottom allowed the fruity pebble taste to shine with out including a ton of sugar. I attempted many totally different strategies with this recipe and located a basic buttercream base was simply too candy, nevertheless it seems white chocolate was the ticket!
• Pairs properly with so many desserts. Swirl it over vanilla cupcakes, smear it round a white cake, or sandwich it in macarons.

What You Want

You want six components to make my fruity pebbles frosting, most of which gained’t shock you. Right here’s what you want–and what you don’t!

• Fruity pebbles. Clearly (I hope). Make sure that to seize common fruity pebbles and never the marshmallow sort. We’ll use two separate quantities right here; one for making a cereal milk focus and one for pulverizing into the frosting on the very finish.
• Butter. Use unsalted butter (we’re including salt individually later!) and ensure it’s softened beforehand. Don’t let it get too heat although, or your frosting might find yourself greasy.
• Powdered sugar. This recipe requires simply two cups of powdered sugar, which is sort of a bit lower than most different buttercream frostings, like my vanilla frosting. NOte that if you need your frosting to be stiffer or sweeter you possibly can add extra sugar.
• White chocolate. Use a premium white chocolate for greatest outcomes (like Ghiradelli). You need to use both chopped white chocolate bars or premium white chocolate chips. Make sure that to let the chocolate cool fully after melting; nevertheless, don’t let it re-solidify.
• Milk. We’ll use this to create a fruity pebbles focus. I like to recommend entire milk, as a thinner or decrease fats milk might make this already mushy frosting even softer.

You might also discover that I don’t use any vanilla extract on this recipe. That is intentional! I discovered that the vanilla bullied the fruit taste of the cereal, which must be the star of the present.

SAM’S TIP: Soften your chocolate slowly! I share a number of tips about how to do that correctly in my publish on the best way to soften chocolate within the microwave. In case your chocolate begins to look grainy and thick, it’s been overheated and you have to to start out over.

Keep in mind, that is simply an summary of the components I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the publish!

How one can Make Fruity Pebbles Frosting

1. Put together the cereal milk! Pour entire milk over Fruity Pebbles cereal in a small dish. Make sure that the entire cereal is submerged, that means you possibly can infuse as a lot taste as doable. Let this soak for at the least 20 minutes.
2. Pressure the cereal and milk by way of a high quality mesh strainer right into a measuring cup, urgent as a lot milk out of the cereal as you possibly can (I take advantage of a spatula to squeeze the cereal). Discard the soggy cereal and set the milk apart for later.
3. Soften the chocolate in a microwave secure bowl till clean, then put aside to chill, be certain that it’s by no means heat to the contact earlier than drizzling beating butter till creamy and stirring within the melted chocolate.
4. Progressively add powdered sugar to the butter/chocolate combination till clean and mixed, then add the salt.

5. Add 2 tablespoons of the strained cereal milk into the frosting and stir on low till integrated. When you have additional cereal milk, simply discard it. Including an excessive amount of might break the frosting or make it too runny.
6. Pulverize fruity pebbles into high quality crumbs then stir into the frosting. Should you’re going to be piping the frosting, be certain that the crumbs are powder-fine or the frosting will get caught within the piping tip.

SAM’S TIP: It is a mushy icing; nevertheless, if it’s too mushy to your use, you all the time could make it stiffer by including extra sugar.

Regularly Requested Questions

SAM’S TIP: I used the Ateco 846 piping tip for the frosting in my images, I’ve linked to it within the recipe card under.

With its pastel, rainbow-colored flecks, this frosting could be so cute for a child bathe cake or cupcakes!

Get pleasure from!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video under! Should you do that recipe, you should definitely tag me on Instagram, and you too can discover me on YouTube and Fb

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