Fluffy Coffee Frosting - Barefeet in the Kitchen

As fluffy as a summer cloud, this intense coffee frosting is for true coffee lovers! Top chocolate cake, coffee cake, vanilla cupcakes, or sandwich between your favorite cookies.

This is a coffee lover’s dream come true.

Coffee Frosting

In our family, we love coffee – a lot. We also love cake. And we take our frostings seriously. This coffee-flavored frosting is always a great choice for chocolate cake, naturally, since coffee and chocolate go so well together.

But don’t stop there! It makes a killer filling between two cookies of just about any type. If you’d drink a cup of coffee with that cookie, you can frost it with coffee frosting. From 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies to Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies, we have so many options for cookies here.

Chocolate Chip Blondies are heavenly when topped with this frosting too. Pour a cup of coffee and let’s frost something!

coffee cake with coffee frosting on a plate with a spatula

Coffee Flavored Frosting

To make this coffee-fanatic fantasy frosting, you’ll need the following ingredients:

instant coffee
water
butter
powdered sugar
vanilla
heavy cream

coffee frosting in a bowl with an offset spatula

Fluffy Frosting Recipe

In my house, cake frosting must be fluffy. That splash of heavy cream at the end of the recipe, serves a lovely purpose to create the fluffiest, creamiest frosting you’ll ever make.

If you’re a fluffy frosting fan, try out Fluffy, Creamy, Perfect Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Creamy, not-too-sweet, and absolutely perfect, it is truly the best chocolate frosting I’ve ever tasted.

Fresh strawberries are one of my favorite fruits and this frosting is absolutely bursting with strawberry flavor. I crammed almost a full pound of fresh berries into this fresh Strawberry Frosting and you can taste the berries in every bite.

Grab a spoon, you are going to want to eat this Whipped Cream Frosting straight from the bowl, or go ahead and dive in with fresh strawberries!

Peanut Butter Frosting is so fluffy, easy, and delicious that you will find yourself topping everything with it. Cupcakes, cookies, crackers the possibilities are truly endless.

Fresh Blueberry Frosting is a light and creamy frosting, whipped into fluffy blueberry loveliness. A dollop of this frosting is sweet heaven on a cupcake. On a spoon, on a cracker, or on an actual cake this blueberry buttercream frosting is irresistible.

Buttery sweet caramel sauce with just a hint of salt combines with cream cheese for silky smooth salted caramel frosting perfection.

coffee cake with coffee frosting on a plate

Coffee Cake Frosting Recipe

Combine the instant coffee and the water and stir to dissolve. Place the butter in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Add 2 cups of powdered sugar gradually, one cup at a time. Beating until well combined. Add the vanilla and the coffee, beating until well combined.

Slowly add the cream, while beating the frosting. The frosting should be light and fluffy. Spread the frosting over the cooled cake.

COOK’S NOTE: I use one (.11 ounce) tube of instant coffee (the kind from a well-known coffee shop) for each 1½ teaspoon portion listed in this recipe.

Feel free to add more powdered sugar to the frosting for a thicker frosting or more cream for a thinner frosting.

Servings: 12 servings

Combine the instant coffee and the water and stir to dissolve. Place the butter in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
Add 2 cups of powdered sugar gradually, one cup at a time. Beating until well combined. Add the vanilla and the coffee, beating until well combined.
Slowly add the cream, while beating the frosting. The frosting should be light and fluffy. Spread the frosting over the cooled cake.

I use one (.11 ounce) tube of instant coffee (the kind from a well-known coffee shop) for each 1½ teaspoon portion listed in this recipe.
Feel free to add more powdered sugar to the frosting for a thicker frosting or more cream for a thinner frosting.