Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

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One of our Favorite Frosting recipe! It’s not too rich, but OH so tasty! And Very easy to make!

Ingredients: 

1 pkg cream cheese  (room temperature)
1 stick of butter   (room temperature)
1 tsp vanilla
4 cups (1 lb) powdered sugar.

 

 

 

Directions: 
Put all ingredients into a bowl and blend together until smooth.Add Milk 1 Tablespoon at a time until you get the consistency you want.
To frost cakes/cupcakes you will want this frosting recipe fairly thick, otherwise it will not hold up it’s shape. For the pink cake I used approx 2 Tablespoons of milk.This frosting is difficult to use for fancy decorating because of it’s inability to hold special shapes, but it is VERY tasty and works well for a basic frosting on cupcakes or to cover a cake. For embellishment frosting you will want something thicker.

For Different colors, simply add a few drops of food coloring for lighter colors, or lots of food coloring for darker colors. (Pink color in photo was approx 5 drops of red food coloring.)

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Substitution!!!If you enjoy a nice cream cheese frosting, but find it is still too sweet, or maybe you just want a little “kick”; here is a fun substitution to the recipe!
Instead of adding milk, add Lemon Juice 2 teaspoons at a time until you achieve the thickness you prefer on your frosting.
It mellows down the sweetness, but doesn’t overpower the frosting with a lemon flavor. It plays well with the cream cheese.This is a fantastic alteration to the frosting recipe for chocolate cakes!
Have you tried our recipe? 
Have you tried our alteration? 
What were your results!? 

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13 Comments

  1. Nice work on the pink frosting. Whenever we use food coloring, it always comes out to dark. Now must fight urge not to make a cake.
    Thanks for stopping by my blog.
    cheers,
    Richard aka Bob ButterBottom

  2. Thanks for visiting Richard! My mother taught me the trick of starting small..aka, only a few drops at a time because you can always add more but you can't take any out. lol.

    My problem is getting the Darker colors for my son's birthday frosting's. lol. I can never get it dark enough because I may be a little too "cheap" and not want to use the entire food coloring tube on ONE batch of frosting. lol.

  3. Whenever we try to go darker, it turns too dark. Its an art and something I don't have the patience for, but luckily Laura does.

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