Best Easy Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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Best Easy Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

This homemade cream cheese frosting is incredibly easy to make with just a handful of staple ingredients. It's the perfect icing for spreading or piping onto our favorite cakes and cupcakes like carrot cake and red velvet cake and even cookies.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

Servings servings

Calories 126kcal

Author Sherri Hagymas

Ingredients

½ cup unsalted butter softened, 1 stick
8 ounces cream cheese full fat, 1 block softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

In a mixing bowl, add the softened butter and cream cheese and mix with a stand mixer or an electric hand mixer for one minute until fluffy and smooth.
½ cup unsalted butter, 8 ounces cream cheese
Add the vanilla extract and blend until combined.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Gradually add in the powdered sugar and mix until completely combined with no lumps.
3 cups powdered sugar

Notes

Use to frost your favorite spice cake, carrot cake, applesauce cake or red velvet cake.

This is a wonderful frosting for spreading on cakes or piping on cupcakes or cookies.

The recipe will frost a 9x13 sheet cake, an 8 or 9-inch round (2) layer cake or 24 cupcakes.

Carefully measure the sugar and using the spoon and level method so the frosting is too sweet and too thick. Lightly scoop the sugar out of the bag and into a measuring cup.

If you'd like it more sweet, add up to one more cup of sugar for a total of 4 cups.

Refrigerate leftovers for up to a week.

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