Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting

This blueberry cream cheese frosting recipe is a flavorful and unique way to add purple color and the taste of fresh blueberries to your baked goods. While it has a somewhat soft texture due to the cream cheese in it, it pipes beautifully on cake layers, cupcakes, and more.

Classic flavors like almond frosting exist for a reason - they are timeless.

But this blueberry cream cheese frosting, like mango buttercream, is just another example of different but delish frosting flavors you'll find on my blog.

It's not as far out there as basil buttercream (which I love - don't knock it 'til you try it!), but it is unique and will impress folks for the fact you made it at home. It is the perfect accent to my blueberry cupcakes!

And bonus: The ingredient list is short and relatively easy to find!

🫐 If you're a blueberry lover, you need to try:

• Blueberry and chocolate chip muffins - Why choose between chocolate chip and blueberry when you can have it all?
• Blueberry and pear crumble - Prepped in less than 15 minutes and baked for about an hour, this dish is a perfect breakfast or evening treat.

Jump to:

• Why You'll Love this Frosting Recipe
• Ingredients for Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting
• How to make frosting less sweet
• 📋 How to Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting
• Using this Fresh Blueberry Frosting
• Tips for the Best Buttercreams and Frosting
• Best Results: Baking in Grams
• Storage Instructions
• ❓FAQ for Berry Cream Cheese Frosting
• More Recipes like this One
• Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting

Why You'll Love this Frosting Recipe

• Fluffy texture: Thanks to both cream cheese and a bit of blueberry jam or preserves, this frosting is soft and spreadable while still holding a nice shape.
• Easy to make: In addition to having great flavor, this recipe is a quick one to literally whip up.
• Natural food coloring: I'm such a sucker for a colorful frosting or buttercream. When possible, I like to achieve colors naturally. The end result of this recipe is a beautiful, rich shade of purply blue, and it's all natural, thanks to freeze dried blueberries and jam.

Ingredients for Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting

Many of this recipe's main ingredients are common ones you'd find in American buttercream. However, the cream cheese base of this frosting (like my raspberry cream cheese frosting) yields a different flavor and slightly softer texture.

Below is what you'll need to make this easy blueberry frosting. Find the full recipe in the recipe card at the bottom of this post:

• Room temperature unsalted butter - Butter makes a slightly firmer frosting, giving it stability when you pipe it.
• Powdered sugar - This ingredient (sometimes referred to as "icing sugar") keeps your frosting light and fluffy.
• Full-fat cream cheese - Fat equals flavor! You can use low fat if you'd like, but the flavor will be slightly different.
• Freeze dried blueberries, finely ground into a powder - Freeze-dried blueberries give this creamy frosting the taste of fresh blueberries. Made with real fruit, freeze dried berries pack a punch. This ingredient is a must!
• Vanilla extract - This adds a nice, warming note to the frosting, giving it a bit more sweetness and depth, too. If you like almond extract, this recipe is nice with a dash of that, too, though it's not necessary.
• Your favorite blueberry jam - This ingredients increases the notes of blueberry here. If you can't get your hands on jam, the freeze dried fruit does a great job of imparting blueberry flavor; you could get away without using the jam or increasing the freeze dried fruit powder. Also, for best results in making a smooth frosting, choose a jam that doesn't have large fruit chunks in it.
• Almond extract - Optional but delicious alongside blueberries.
• Pinch of salt - Although it may sound counterintuitive, salt in sweet desserts and dishes counterbalances sweetness and helps make flavors more pronounced.
• Optional: Add some drops of lemon or lime juice (or white vinegar) to cut sweetness.

📋 How to Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting

Smooth the Cream Cheese: In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment or a large mixing bowl with a handheld electric mixer, beat the softened cream cheese until smooth (about 2 minutes). Add the unsalted room temperature butter and cream butter for another minute until fully combined.

Incorporate Dry Ingredients: Turn off mixer and add salt, powdered sugar, finely ground freeze dried blueberries, and vanilla extract (and almond extract, if using) to the bowl with your butter and cream cheese mixture. Mix on low speed to slowly incorporate powdered sugar before increasing to high setting for another 2-3 minutes. Use a rubber spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl, ensuring all ingredients are combined.

Add Additional Blueberry Flavor: Add jam to mixing bowl and mix until well-combined. Taste test and add lemon juice if needed to cut sweetness (personal preference). Mix again to incorporate.

Pipe & Decorate: Transfer frosting to a piping bag fitted with your preferred tip and decorate cakes or cupcakes as desired.

Using this Fresh Blueberry Frosting

This recipe creates enough frosting for decorating a dozen cupcakes or a smaller (think two layers and 6″ round) cake.

This frosting would be a nice way to change up a traditional chocolate cake or cupcake with a pop of berry-flavored frosting. It goes great with my small batch vanilla cupcakes and fudgy chocolate cupcake recipe.

Either way, these are fun pairings and flavors to enjoy together.

If you wanted more blueberry flavor for my lemon blueberry cake, you could swap out the mascarpone frosting with the recipe here. You'd need to make about 25% more frosting to cover the cake as completely, though.

Or use it to top off these blueberry filled cupcakes for the ultimate blueberry dessert.

Tips for the Best Buttercreams and Frosting

• Want super smooth frosting? Once your stand mixer has done the hard work, spend a few more minutes with a spatula and your mixing bowl. Use the spatula to pop air bubbles in the frosting. To do this, push frosting with a spatula from the middle of your bowl to its edges, watching as the tears and bubbles in your buttercream disappear. Spend 3-4 minutes doing these motions to achieve nice, smooth frosting.
• If you need to thin out this frosting, add a few splashes of heavy cream or milk. Adding more blueberry jam or preserves will also thin out this frosting.
• If you need to make a thicker frosting, add about ¼ cup of powdered sugar at a time. Mix until you've reached your desired consistency.
• Frosting too sweet? Add a few dashes of lemon juice, lime juice, or distilled white vinegar. It cuts the sweetness, so taste test until it's your desired flavor.

Storage Instructions

This frosting freezes very well and also stays fresh in the refrigerator for a few days.

Freeze it in an airtight container or tightly sealed plastic wrap for 3 months. Let it thaw and come to room temperature before attempting to use it to decorate cakes or cupcakes.

It will stay fresh keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for about 3 days.

You can also freeze fully decorated cupcakes or cakes that use this frosting.

For more on a related topic, I have a detailed guide for freezing cupcakes.

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