Delicious Frosting with Dulce de Leche and Peanut Butter

If you love the combination of caramel and peanuts, this creamy and delicious Frosting with Dulce de Leche and Peanut Butter is perfect for your next cake.

It is thick and spreadable, without being overly sweet as the heavy cream balances the sweetness of the dulce de leche and the peanut butter adds a light nutty flavour to the cream.

This cream works beautifully as a filling and frosting for a 20 cm cake.

If you have a nut allergy, you can simply omit the peanut butter. Even without it, the texture of the cream becomes lighter, almost like a mousse, which makes it ideal for filling cakes.

Tips and Notes

Cold cream is essential for a smooth texture.

Adding dulce de leche gradually prevents the cream from splitting. The amount I have used, makes it lightly sweet. If you want it sweeter, add more Dulce de Leche.

This frosting is thick but not stiff, so it spreads nicely and holds its shape moderately well.

For extra stability, a small amount of dissolved gelatin can be added if desired.

It pairs beautifully with chocolate or nutty cakes.

Store in the fridge and serve chilled.

How to use this Delicious Frosting with Dulce de Leche and Peanut Butter, apart from frosting cakes?

This cream is rich and beautifully spreadable, but still light, so it can be used in many desserts besides cakes.

Here are some delicious ideas:

1. Pancakes or Waffles

Spread a spoonful on warm pancakes or waffles. The heat softens the cream slightly and the dulce de leche flavour becomes even more pronounced.

2. Crepes

This would be wonderful inside thin crepes. Spread the cream and fold the crepe into triangles or roll it up.

3. Filling for Sandwich Cookies 🍪

Use it between:

• butter cookies
• chocolate cookies
• peanut butter cookies
• Alfajores cookies

It makes excellent cookie sandwiches.

4. Tart or Pie Filling

Spread it in a baked tart shell and top with:

• bananas
• chocolate shavings
• toasted peanuts

Very similar to a banoffee-style dessert.

5. With Fresh Fruit 🍌🍓

Serve a bowl of the cream as a fruit dip for:

• bananas
• strawberries
• apple slices

The slight acidity of fruit balances the sweetness.

6. Layered Dessert Cups (Very Pretty for Guests)

Make quick dessert glasses by layering:

• crushed biscuits or sponge cake
• the cream
• whipped cream
• grated chocolate

Repeat the layers.

7. Filling for Choux Pastry

It would be perfect inside:

• cream puffs (profiteroles)
• éclairs

8. Ice Cream Topping 🍨

Slightly loosen it with a spoonful of warm cream and drizzle over:

• vanilla ice cream
• chocolate ice cream

9. Brioche or Sweet Bread

Spread it on:

• brioche
• tsoureki
• toasted sweet bread

This is especially good with tsoureki, because the mastic and mahlepi flavours pair beautifully with caramel.

10. Stuffed Dates (Elegant Meze Dessert)

Fill Medjool dates with a small spoon of the cream and sprinkle chopped peanuts on top.

This is the Birthday Cake I made for my daughter, Elia!

I made the sponge cake smaller than I usually do and baked it in a 20 cm diameter pan for 35 minutes: I used 4 eggs, 135 g sugar, 85 g cake flour, 1 vanilla, and orange zest.

I cut the sponge cake in half, moistened it with syrup from cherry preserves, and added 1/3 of the cream, after mixing in two more tablespoons of peanut butter and scattered 10 cherries from the cherry spoon sweet

On top, I heated the remaining dulce de leche in the microwave, spread it out, and decorated it with cherries.

P.S. The platter and the bowl are both Elia’s creations! She has been going to a ceramics class for a while and she has made many more beautiful creations!

Kopiaste and Kali Orexi,