Cream Cheese Frosting
"My favourite cream cheese frosting. Rich and creamy and slightly tart from the addition of fresh lemon juice."
- Ready In:
- 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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2 cups
ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
- 3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- milk (optional, if icing is too thick)
directions
- Combine cream cheese, butter, lemon juice and vanilla.
- Beat in sugar. Beat until sugar has dissolved. If icing is too thick, add up to two tablespoonfuls of milk to thin.
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Reviews
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Made this to go with a chocolate zucchini cake and it was a very nice addition. Loved the lemony taste and the fact it wasn't too sweet. My only beef is it was not quite thick enough, but it's easily rectified by either decreasing or omitting the milk, I think. Lovely. Thanks for posting. -
I was looking for a cream cheese frosting that wasn't so heavy on being sweet. This fit the bill. My new forever cream cheese frosting! Thank you!
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My normal recipe calls for powdered sugar, and I was out. This is so easy and delicious that it is my new normal recipe! -
Love this. This is how I will make cream cheese frosting from now on. I used Light cream cheese (Neufchatel) and did not add any milk. Easy to make and delicious. I used it on a carrot cake. I can't get the stars to register, but it's worth five stars to me!
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Great recipe - I was looking for something specifically with cream cheese and no confectioners sugar because I didn't have any on hand. Turns out I didn't have any granulated either so I substituted brown sugar and it turned out great! Loved the lemon in there as well.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.
