Cream Cheese Frosting
This is an easy and delicious Cream Cheese Frosting, made with simple ingredients like butter, cream cheese, confectioner sugar, vanilla extract, and salt. It goes great on Red velvet Cake, Carrot Cake, Pumpkin Spice Cake, or even many cookies. Homemade frosting is so fresh and delicious.
Equipment
- Sifter
- Stand mixer with paddle attachment
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 500 gm Powdered sugar
- 1.5 cups Unsalted butter
- 16 oz Cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- Sift the powdered sugar to remove lumps.
- Take 16 oz cream cheese and 3 sticks of unsalted butter at room temperature in a stand mixer bowl with the paddle attachment.
- Beat it for a couple of minutes till it's soft and well combined.
- Add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and ⅛ teaspoon salt and beat it together.
- Add the sifted sugar in small batches to the creamed butter and cream cheese and keep mixing at low speed.
- Once all the sugar is incorporated and you have reached the desired consistency stop beating. Your frosting is ready.
- You can pipe it or frost the cake or cookies or even some jar desserts with it.
- Store the remaining cream cheese frosting in an air-tight container and it will stay good for up to a week.
Notes
- Always sift the sugar before adding it to the cream cheese frosting.
- Use full-fat cream cheese for best results.
- Refrigerate the frosting if piping if it becomes too soft.
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