Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This is my family favorite BEST cream cheese frosting recipe! It goes great on Carrot Cake, Red Velvet Cake, and just about any other flavor cake or cupcake you can imagine. I’ve been making this cream cheese icing for years!

If I had things my way, every cake and every cupcake would be be buried beneath a mountain of cream cheese frosting.

Not buttercream — Never rarely buttercream — always and only cream cheese. For someone with such a rampant sweet tooth, it’s alarming the number of times I’ve turned down a slice of cake or a sky-high frosted cupcake because the buttercream just makes my teeth hurt (OK full disclosure I have a buttercream recipe coming up on the blog next month, and it’s delicious, but cream cheese frosting will always win over my heart, even over my favorite chocolate frosting).

While buttercream frostings are usually too sweet, cream cheese frosting I could eat with a spoon, and this recipe is every bit as versatile as buttercream — it’s sturdy, pipe-able, can be dyed, and, most importantly, it’s delicious.

Cream Cheese Frosting

This is my all time FAVORITE Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe! Just 5 ingredients!This recipe will cover either one 2-layer 8″ or 9″ cake, 24 cupcakes, or generously frost (as much frosting as in the photos) 12 cupcakes.Please see note regarding thickness

Prep: 10min

Total: 10min

Yield: 24

Serving Size: 1 /24 batch

Nutrition Facts: servingSize 1 /24 batch, calories 146 kcal, Carbohydrate 20 g, Protein 1 g, Fat 7 g, Saturated Fat 4 g, Trans Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 21 mg, Sodium 56 mg, Sugar 20 g

Ingredients:

• ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter (softened (113g))
• 8 oz cream cheese (softened (brick-style, not spreadable) (226g))
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 4 cups powdered sugar* ((500g))

Instruction:

1. Combine butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer (or you may use an electric mixer) and beat until creamy, well-combined, and lump-free.
2. Add vanilla extract and salt and stir well to combine.
3. With mixer on low, gradually add powdered sugar until completely combined.
4. Use to frost completely cooled cake or cupcakes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

You know that no cake, cupcake, bar or cookie is complete without the perfect layer of cream cheese icing or frosting. Luckily, our spreadable and creamy homemade recipe is ready in just 5 minutes with 4 simple ingredients. Sweet with just the right amount of tang, this from-scratch Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe is the perfect finish for carrot cake, red velvet cupcakes, pumpkin-spice bars and more. Soon you’ll be adding this cream cheese frosting recipe to everything on the dessert tray and more.

Prep: 3min

Total: 5min

Yield: 32

Serving Size: 1 Serving

Nutrition Facts: calories 170 , Carbohydrate 21 g, Cholesterol 25 mg, Fat 2 , Fiber 0 g, Protein 0 g, Saturated Fat 6 g, servingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 85 mg, Sugar 20 g, Trans Fat 0 g

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cups powdered sugar, plus more as needed

Instruction:

1. In large bowl, beat softened butter and cream cheese with electric mixer on medium speed 2 to 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally, until smooth and creamy.
2. Stir in vanilla, then stir in powdered sugar. Add more powdered sugar as needed until frosting is a thick spreadable consistency.
3. Spread or pipe frosting on cooled cake or cupcakes.

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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