Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting

This classic cream cheese frosting gets a tropical edge with the addition of North America’s largest native fruit: the pawpaw!
category
Recipe
Author
Foraged
date
03.17.23
read time
1 minutes

Overview:

Keyword
pawpaw

INGREDIENTS:

Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 5 tbsp butter
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 5 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 tsp ground spicebush berries
- 1/2 cup pawpaw pulp

Preparation:

Step 1 - Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Step 1

1. Mix the butter, cream cheese, and vanilla.

Step 2 - Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Step 2

2. Sift together the powdered sugar and spice.

Step 3 - Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Step 3

3. Alternate mixing the sugar mixture and pawpaw pulp into the butter mixture.

Step 4 - Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Step 4

4. Adjust the amount of sugar for desired consistency.

Step 5 - Pawpaw Cream Cheese Frosting Step 5

5. Spread onto cake(s) after they are fully cooled.

PAWPAW CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

This recipe originally appeared in The Joy of Pawpaw Cookbook to spread on a Pawpaw Spice Cake! A couple of things to note: while you can use a frozen pawpaw pulp in this recipe throughout the year, we really recommend using the fresh fruit when they’re in season. This recipe also calls for spicebush (Lindera benzoin), one of our favorite wild spices. If you don’t have them on hand, feel free to use allspice instead! Learn about Pawpaws

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