Sweetened Condensed Milk Buttercream Frosting is the best frosting to add to your cupcakes and cake. It’s so decadent! 

I love to bake! It’s obvious from all the recipes I share on this blog. But there was always one recipe that wasn’t my favorite….Vanilla Buttercream icing.

I mean it’s really good but almost too sweet for me. I have tried many different ways to make this recipe and it’s never been perfect for me, until now!

Last week I wanted to make cupcakes and my kids wanted vanilla icing. As I thought about it more and more I realized that I could use anything as the “liquid” part of the icing.

So after looking in my cabinet – I decided to try sweetened condensed milk instead of half and half or heavy whipping cream. (We do love this vanilla icing that actually uses real sugar and I really should make this more!)

I am so glad I did. My kids agreed that they love this recipe. It’s sweet but it doesn’t taste like you are eating all powdered sugar.

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I made my chocolate cake recipe that starts with a mix but has a few more ingredients to make it light and fluffy. We made cupcakes and frosted them with this delicious frosting recipe!

This recipe will frost a 9×13 cake and 24 cupcakes. If you are going to pipe the icing or make 2- 9-inch cakes, I would make 1.5 of the recipe to have enough to be generous with the icing.

I have also published a recipe for Sweetened Condensed Milk Chocolate Buttercream Frosting that is just as delicious!

Scroll to the bottom for the printable recipe. 

Sweetened Condensed Milk Buttercream Frosting

• 2 sticks of butter, softened (1 cup)
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ cup Sweetened Condensed Milk

Instructions:

1. Using an electric mixer (I prefer a standing mixer) beat the butter for about 2 minutes until it is light and fluffy. Add the remaining ingredients and mix until it is well combined.
2. It will be hard at first and then once it’s all combined it will be a delicious fluffy icing you can use on your favorite cakes!!

You can add this icing to my favorite chocolate cake mix – that starts with a box of cake mix. It would also be yummy on my Snicker’s cupcakes. 

Do you have any special ingredients you add to your icing recipe?

Sweetened Condensed Milk Buttercream Frosting Recipe

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Sweetened Condensed Milk Buttercream Frosting is perfect for cupcakes or a cake!

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of butter, softened (1 cup)
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ cup Sweetened Condensed Milk

Instructions

1. Using a mixer (I prefer a standing mixer) beat the butter for about 2 minutes until it is
light and fluffy. Add the remaining ingredients and mix until it is well combined.
2. It will be hard at first and then once it's all combined it will be a delicious fluffy icing you
can use on your favorite cakes!!

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