German Buttercream with Pudding

Easy buttercream basic recipe for a delicious German buttercream with pudding. Suitable for cakes and cupcakes.

Hello there! Today I have great step-by-step instructions for classic German buttercream with pudding for you: with this recipe, buttercream succeeds – I guarantee!

Taste and Occasion

You definitely won't go wrong with this easy buttercream recipe! The cream is tremendously important for many cakes and cupcakes, whether as a filling, a frosting or a topping. It is versatile, wonderfully creamy and lush.

The problem for many amateur bakers: buttercream never turns out right. But it's not difficult to make a good buttercream yourself. How, I show you in this post.

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Whether classic with vanilla, chocolatey or fruity: the basic buttercream recipe will succeed even if you bake relatively rarely. The main ingredients of the easy German buttercream with custard are butter, custard, and sugar. Unlike the French and Italian, it is a buttercream without eggs.

First of all, take the butter out of the refrigerator. Then you prepare a pudding from pudding powder, milk and sugar. You only need 400 ml of milk instead of the 500 indicated on the package. The pudding must now cool down (but not in the refrigerator). To prevent a skin from forming, stir it now and then - or cover the bowl with cling film. As soon as the pudding and the butter are at the same temperature, i.e. room temperature, you can start. The correct temperature is most important! Beat the soft butter with powdered sugar until light and fluffy. Then add pudding by tablespoonfuls. Done.

The amount is enough to thinly coat a 24-26 centimeter diameter cake with buttercream and fill it once. For chocolate buttercream, I prefer to use slightly more expensive pudding powder with grated chocolate. But you can also make the cream with vanilla or strawberry pudding or flavor and color it. For example, with liqueur, mocha, light and dark chocolate coating, cherry brandy, brittle, ground or chopped nuts, cocoa and nougat.

How to make German Buttercream with Pudding

I've mentioned the preparation before, but here it is again, all step by step. So you succeed the buttercream guaranteed! First of all, make a pudding with pudding powder, milk and sugar. Important: you actually need only 400ml of milk and therefore less milk than the instructions say!

Now, pour the pudding into a bowl and let it cool down at room temperature. While cooling, stir again and again or cover with cling film so that no skin develops.Then, place the softened butter, which must be at room temperature like the pudding, in a bowl. Using a stand mixer or hand mixer and whisk, beat the butter and powdered sugar for a few minutes until very light and fluffy.

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Now it's time to slowly stir in the pudding, tablespoon by tablespoon, until everything forms a homogeneous cream. Either decorate or fill the cake directly with a spatula or chill the buttercream briefly beforehand so that it becomes a little firmer.

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To refine the cream are suitable, among others, baking cocoa, spices such as cinnamon and tonka bean, liqueur, chopped nuts, melted and slightly cooled chocolate, mocha.

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German Buttercream with Pudding

Absolutely sure to succeed basic buttercream recipe for a German buttercream with pudding. The easy buttercream is suitable, for example, for cakes or cupcakes.

Prep Time10 mins

Waiting Time15 mins

Servings: 1 cake (9,5 in/24 cm)

Calories: 146kcal

Ingredients

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• 1 small bag pudding powder for cooking, e.g. chocolate, vanilla, etc.
• 400 milliliters (1 ¾ cups) milk
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 250 grams (1 cup) butter, soft and at room temperature
• 50 grams (6 tablespoons) powdered sugar

Instructions

• Make a pudding with pudding powder, milk and sugar (note: you actually need only 400ml of milk and therefore less milk than the instructions say!) Pour the pudding into a bowl and let it cool down at room temperature. While cooling, stir again and again or cover with cling film so that no skin develops.
• Place the softened butter, which must be at room temperature like the pudding, in a bowl. Using a stand mixer or hand mixer and whisk, beat the butter and powdered sugar for a few minutes until very light and fluffy. Slowly stir in the pudding, tablespoon by tablespoon, until everything forms a homogeneous cream. Either decorate or fill the cake directly with a spatula or chill the buttercream briefly beforehand so that it becomes a little firmer.

Notes

• The buttercream recipe is absolutely sure to succeed - as long as the pudding and butter are really at (the same) room temperature. If the buttercream does curdle, just warm it slightly in a hot water bath, stir everything until smooth, and chill it again briefly.
• The amount is enough for a thin layer of filling as well as a thin frosting of a 24-26 cm cake. For more layers or if you want the coating to be thicker, use 1.5 of the amount.
• The pudding powder can be strawberry, caramel or cream in addition to vanilla and chocolate. High-quality pudding powder with real bourbon vanilla or additional chocolate shavings tastes best.

Variations

Together with a sponge or sponge cake base and fruit, it quickly becomes a delicious cake. Or you can use the cream to decorate cupcakes with it. Typically, the mixture is used in classic baking recipes.

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