Coffee Flavored Buttercream Frosting | The perfect light and creamy frosting with a hint of coffee flavor to compliment chocolate or mocha cupcakes and cake. 

This delicious coffee flavored buttercream frosting has just the right amount of coffee flavor.  Add it to a brownie muffin for a delicious addition to a breakfast buffet table or brunch…OR….smooth it over a pan of brownies!

Celebrate the coffee drinker in your family this year for their birthday and make MOCHACCINO CUPCAKES and add this amazing coffee flavored buttercream frosting!

Adding a small amount (about 1 teaspoon) of espresso to chocolate doesn’t flavor the batter to coffee but enhances the flavor of the chocolate?

TIPS FOR A LIGHT AND FLUFFY FROSTING

• Good ingredients “real” butter not margarine
• Room temperature ingredients
• Be patient…you’ll need to whip the frosting at least 3 to 5 minutes (sometimes I do this step twice).  This will allow air to incorporate into the butter and create the lightness you want.
• That’s it!  It’s really not as hard as you might think

Sometimes the thought of making both cupcakes and frosting from scratch can get overwhelming.  Here’s something I like to do when I’m in a pinch for time (this is for mocha cupcakes).  I pick up the darkest chocolate cake mix I can find (Usually Ghirardelli) and add 1 tablespoon of espresso powder to the batter.  Shhh…..if you don’t tell anyone they’re not made from scratch they’ll never know.  Click here for more ideas of how to transform a cake mix—->>>>22 WAYS TO MAKE A CAKE MIX TASTE LIKE HOMEMADE.

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