I cannot believe how many of my food blogging friends are having babies this year! Today a huge group of us are celebrating Krystal’s baby, who is on his or her way (nobody will know until it gets here!) in 10 weeks.
I met Krystal at Foodbuzz Festival in November and she’s awesome. We sat together at the Friday night dinner and she is hilarious and sweet.
(photo from Jessica)
Since Krystal is Filipino and her husband, Eric is Cuban, we all made a dish inspired by one of those cuisines. I chose to go in the Filipino direction, and since some of the best mangoes in the world come from the Philippines, I made mango cupcakes.
Unfortunately, the cupcake recipe I used was fairly disappointing, but the mango buttercream was great. So I would recommend making your favorite white or yellow cupcakes and frosting them with this. If I ever find mango extract, I’ll probably try them again, but I think the take-home lesson here is: when things go wrong, eat frosting!
Krystal and Eric, I’m so excited for you to meet Cookie in about 9 weeks; you’re going to be great parents!
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 tablespoons mango puree
Instructions
- To make the mango puree, put a few pieces of fresh mango in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Cream the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the powdered sugar and beat well.
- Add the mango puree 1 tablespoon at a time, until the frosting has a spreadable (or pipe-able) consistency. (If you can find mango jam -- Crofter's makes some -- you can use that in place of some of the puree. Its flavor is a little more concentrated)
- Makes enough to frost about 18 cupcakes
YUM! This mango buttercream sounds incredible!
Mango buttercream sounds to die for.
ooooh, hubby is a mango fanatic, he would love this!
Mango buttercream is where it’s AT!!!!!!! Mmmm, and I’m on this mango-kick right now, so I know that I’d eat the frosting right out of the bowl before putting them on a cupcake! I can’t wait to try this sweet concoction up! Thanks for the sweet post and participating in my virtual shower!
XXOO!
Cate, these look so great. I’m sorry the cupcakes didn’t turn out the way you wanted, but the frosting sounds divine. I’m thinking I may put it on top of some key lime cupcakes this summer.
These look amazing, Cate! Will definitely be trying this mango buttercream SOON!
I’m so glad to have a new cupcake frosting recipe, that is light and refreshing! Sounds fabulous!
Wow, mango buttercream sounds really really good! It’s a bummer the cupcake recipe didn’t turn out, but sometimes I think it’s perfectly OK to just eat buttercream with a spoon.