Cream Cheese Frosting
Best cream cheese frosting recipe! It’s creamy, smooth, and the perfect topping for cakes, muffins, loaf cakes, and so on. Super easy to make!
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About this recipe
This cream cheese frosting recipe is delicious! It’s creamy, and smooth, and adds richness to any cake. Here is the link for recipe ideas that look great with cream cheese frosting: Carrot Loaf Cake, Pumpkin Bread, and a Sweet Potato Cake.
It’s the perfect topping for cakes, muffins, and so on. It’s very easy and quick to make, and you can also freeze it.
Ingredients
This recipe takes only 4 ingredients:
- Cream cheese: full-fat cream cheese softened at room temperature.
- Butter: unsalted butter softened at room temperature.
- Powdered Sugar
- Lemon: drops of fresh lemon juice. You can replace the lemon with vanilla extract.
How to make cream cheese frosting
In a medium bowl beat the softened cream cheese, softened butter, sifted powdered sugar, and lemon juice with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
Storing
Store cream cheese frosting covered in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it in an air-tight container.
Some recipe ideas that go well with cream cheese frosting
- Pumpkin Bread
- Pumpkin Muffins
- Carrot Loaf Cake
- Banana Buckwheat Bread
- Banana Buckwheat Muffins
- Sweet Potato Cake
- Carrot Cake Muffins
Cream cheese frosting
Ingredients
- 7 ounces cream cheese, softened at room temperature (200gr)
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened (80gr)
- 1/2 cup and 2 tablespoons powdered sugar (100gr)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- In a medium bowl beat the softened cream cheese, softened butter, sifted powdered sugar, and lemon juice with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy.
Notes
- Store cream cheese frosting covered in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it in an air-tight container.
