Cream Cheese Frosting

Submitted by Bev I Am

"This is a delicious recipe to use with cakes or to use with the Pumpkin Bar recipe I posted."

 

• Ready In: 10mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1⁄4 cup butter, softened
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

directions

1. Beat cream cheese and butter in large mixer bowl at high speed until fluffy, about 1 minute.
2. Beat in Confectioner's sugar, 1 cup at a time (using more or less sugar depending on preferred consistency) , then continue beating until smooth.
3. Beat in vanilla.
4. Chill bowl of frosting in refrigerator, stirring often, until good spreading consistency.
5. Makes about 2 2/3 cups.

Reviews

[Larawithoutau]

This is very good, I would cut back the powdered sugar by 1/2-3/4 c. as it was a little sweeter than we'd like and took away some of the cream cheese flavor. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Myredeemer316]

I made this Cream Cheese Frosting for a Pumpkin cake I made for my husband and step dad. Well, needless to say they both told me I am no longer allowed to buy canned frosting from the stores. This is the best cream cheese frosting recipe I have ever tried. I printed it out to put into my My Favorites food binder. It was very simple to make, tasted wonderful, you could really taste the cream cheese flavor without the sweet taste you get from the can frostings. Thank you Bev for the awesome recipe.

 

[Elizabeth]

I made this recipe for Red Velvet cake. I absolutely loved it!! I had some difficulties. My mixer decided that the frosting was a tad thick and kind of burnt out on me. I thought it was a little too sweet so I would probably add a little less sugar. Other than that it is super easy and really yummy!

 

[Tanya S.]

I don't know about anyone else but to me the ratio of one package cream cheese to 3 cups sugar was absurd. I added a little over one cup and already found it too sweet. I piped flowers with it onto red velvet cupcakes and it held its shape perfectly fine.

 

[alimpalmer]

Wonderful! It was delicious. I put them on some vanilla cupcakes, and left out the vanilla in the frosting. I'd suggest letting the cream cheese soften before mixing, as it makes it much softer and easier to spread onto cupcakes. I also put in only 2 and a quarter cups of sugar instead of 3, and it was plenty sweet even then.